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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!)
I understand the boys not wanting to do this assignment, but it should really be up for debate. However, I would tweak the assignment. Allow the boys to research men who have wives that have made tremendous accomplishments that have rivaled their husbands success. You could also include women who have made strides and male dominated fields. You could have them research the first woman admitted to Citadel Academy (A military school), this would probably be interesting to them. |
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| The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) |
No
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| The suggested solution is relevant to the case |
Yes
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| The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement |
No
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| The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue |
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| The suggested solution is original |
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| Comments: That would not be fair for the other students. The assignment should not be changed just because the students don't want to do it. Otherwise there wouldnt be lesson plans or unit plans and wouldnt be a point for a teacher to preplan if the students are going to run the class like that. |
| Rated On: February 19, 2013 12:32 am |
| Rated By: maWyZu |
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| The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) |
No
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| The suggested solution is relevant to the case |
No
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| The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement |
No
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| The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue |
No
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| The suggested solution is original |
No
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| Rated On: March 3, 2013 8:16 pm |
| Rated By: yTuGyd |
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| The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) |
No
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| The suggested solution is relevant to the case |
No
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| The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement |
No
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| The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue |
No
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| The suggested solution is original |
No
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| Comments: I think it's a bad idea because it isn't about women's issues/women's rights. It's still putting focus on men over women or the idea that a woman is nothing without men. |
| Rated On: October 18, 2015 8:18 pm |
| Rated By: eMuHub |
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