Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: No Women's Issues Please! I am a novice middle school social studies teacher. When I was still a student in the middle grades education program, my professors taught me the importance of teaching students about the underrepresented groups such as minorities and women. I have been very sensitive to women's issues and their perspectives and contributions since I started my job two years ago. Last week, I was teaching my students how to conduct research using Internet resources. To practice their skills, I asked students to do research on accomplishments of a list of women I created. Students were allowed to pick whom they wanted to research. While my female students were very excited about this assignment, three of my male students openly protested the assignment and said that they did not want to waste their time researching about women. I have to deal with this behavior somehow because I will be integrating women's perspectives into my curriculum regularly in the future. I cannot tolerate this type of behavior continuously. I wonder if these children's home lives have something to do with their reaction to women's issues. What should I do? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) As dreadful as the boys in the class may find women's history to be, it is a major part of American and world history, whether they like it or not, it must be taught. I think that doing some activities such as role playing could convince the boys in the class that women are important and significant figures in history and daily life. Another activity that could be incorporated into a lesson could be a game in which the class is divided into two teams of boys and girls. The goal of the game would be each team of boys and girls to come up with significant events or accomplishments in history that involved men and women. The boys would create a list of female contributions to history and the girls would compose a list of contributions made by men in history. Once each team has created their lists, the class will share. This is a good way to show the class that both men and women can and have impacted history equally.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Rated On: February 19, 2013 12:33 am Rated By: maWyZu                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Great solution. The boys must still be taught about women's achievements because they are important parts of our history. Rated On: October 14, 2014 7:32 pm Rated By: Megan Lee