Current Connection 3.2

According to http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/genderbias.html teachers need to be aware of the gender roles we are facing in our schools. The teachers are the ones who are suppose to make the schools comfortable environment. Being constantly put down by their teachers, the students will not perform their best.

If teachers realize that they cause problems with gender roles, they should go out of their way to make sure the problem is solved. The website says, "Gender bias in education is an insidious problem that causes very few people to stand up and take notice." This means that if gender roles are causing so many problems, someone needs to stand up and say what they feel. Being noble leaders, The teachers should definitely stand up and speak their minds.

The people higher than the teachers, the ones who should be lifting up our students, should help out with this issue as well. The website said, "Departments of education should be providing mandatory gender-equity resource modules to in-service teachers..." This simply means that the teachers should not work alone. The people who are above them should be working on the issue as well, trying to be problem solvers.

Someone needs to make sure that every teacher knows about the gender role problem in our schools. The website states, "..teachers need to be aware of the gender bias.." If no one brings it to their attention, how could they fix it? No one can fix a problem, if they are not aware. 

I watched a movie called "Paradise" recently, and the main character Lamb could not go to college because of how her community thought of the women. She was not happy with how she grew up and now she could not pursue her dreams because how women were portrayed. 

Boys and girls everywhere are being put down in their school settings. That is where the journey should begin and not end. It should not matter what a persons gender is. Everyone should have their shot, starting with our schools. 

Current Connection 3.1

Gender roles have always been a major part of our way of life. The competition of gender roles do not just begin in the workplace; it starts in the school atmosphere.

Gender roles in the school environment have an affect on the rest the students' future. The text says, " Schools serve as 'gatekeepers'..." This means that the schools, the influence to the personal lives of the students, are responsible for what they feed to the minds of the students. The schools are to watch what they teach their students because their minds are still clay that is being crafted. 

Both genders go through different phases from when they start elementary school to when they enter in the higher grades. The text says, "In some measures of school readiness, such as fine motor control, girls are ahead of boys. Twelve years later, girls have fallen behind their male classmates in key areas such as higher-level mathematics and measures of self-esteem." This means that girls start out at a higher level than the boys. Falling back, girls now have lower math grades and self-esteem.

Feeding young minds of students, schools could see a brighter future. The text states, "...Latinas are not achieving primarily because they are in low-achieving (poverty) schools, not because they are girls." This means that the school is at fault for not choosing to truly invest in the lives of young Latina girls. The text clearly states that it is not because they are girls, but the school should focus on all of the students and make sure that they are doing their absolute best.

Making sure every student has what they need, Schools should have the main goal that they will their best no matter what their gender. What would the world be like if this goal was met?



http://www.education.com/reference/article/gender-roles-schools/