Sunday, October 30, 2011

Chapter 4:

What teaching strategies would you use to make sure all students learn effectively in your classroom, whithout distinction of their gender or sexual orientation?

There are many strategies you can use to teach for all students to learn, no matter their gender or sexual orientation. First, every teacher needs to know how to reach children of both genders. Girls and boys learn different. Their brains think differently. Boys tend to be deductive, meaning they start with general and move to specifics, and girls tend to be inductive, meaning they start with specifics and move to the general. Knowing this fact teachers need to know how to accommodate both girls and boys. In my classroom I would plan group activities, this will help the girls learn better. Girls tend to learn better in a group where the students work together. I would also plan lessons that can be done in other areas of the classroom besides a desk. For example I could do a science lesson outside, that would be beneficial to the boys in the classroom. Boys tend to need more space to learn and even some physical activity to help them focus. Now not all girls learn well in a group and not all boys learn better in a spacious environment. Therefore as a teacher I would also have to have lessons where the students work as individuals as well as one on one with me and as a whole class. Teaching so that any student with a different sexual orientation can learn in a safe environment in not to different in my opinion. I would teach they the exact same way I would any other student. I would make sure that there were rules in my classroom that would be there even if there wasn’t a student with a different sexual orientation, which would make sure that that student felt safe. I believe that anyone can learn in an environment they feel safe in. That would be my one of my goals as a teacher.

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