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TEACHING STRATEGIES BACK |
Suggestions for Expanding Awareness of Gender RolesPractical suggestions to help elementary teachers encourage their students to see multiple roles for boys and girls.Read books about boys and girls that contradict gender stereotypes:
Create a display of photos and pictures of women and men doing the same kinds of tasks "in the home" and "in the workplace." Make sure to include racial and ethnic diversity and images of differently disabled people. Role model learning new skills and sharing tasks in the classroom in non-sexist ways. Read books about different ways families are organized. Make a picture display of different kinds of families called "Beautiful Families Come in Many Different Ways." Invite members of children's families who do nontraditional jobs to visit. Support children's dramatic play in nontraditional roles and about different families. Insist that all children take equal responsibility in classroom maintenance tasks. Tell stories about the persona dolls that support nontraditional behaviors and describe the conflicts they sometimes feel when acting in ways that challenge stereotypic gender roles. Celebrate "International Women's Day" (March 8) and "Mother's Day" in a nonsexist way. NOTE: Remember that gender is always complicated by other sociocultural variables such as race, ethnicity, class, disability, and community. Whenever possible make sure to plan for these potent complications.
Creating Gender Equity in Your Teaching http://www.engr.ucdavis.edu/college/information/gender/ A handbook designed to give you ideas about how you can regulate some of the external factors in your teaching settings, thereby becoming a more effective instructor for all your students, including the women in your classes.
Achieving Gender Equity in Science Classrooms http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/homepginfo/equity/Equity_handbook.html A handbook with specific suggestions for making science classrooms more gender equitable learning environments. |