Final Exercise 7

One of the very first obstacles teachers have to face when trying to deconstruct gender stereotypes is:

Gender-neutral teachers:

Teachers’ gender discrimination practices may cause students to:

When we talk about gender discrimination, we are essentially speaking of the negative impacts on:

Teachers can only take action:

Education is more important for boys than girls.

Teachers play an important role in reducing the dropout rate.

Women cannot do some men’s jobs such firefighter or air pilot.

Teacher training is necessary to help teachers who want to become more effective in deconstructing gender stereotypes.

Teachers need to perform an inner reflection about their own beliefs and biases if they want to effectively deconstruct gender stereotypes.

Write a final reflection about what you have learned in this module. Use the guidelines presented below to build your text (between 10 and 30 lines).

• Take some time to reflect on your unconscious gender biases and write down those you will definitely work on after taking this course;
• Indicate which negative impacts you were not aware of regarding gender stereotypes in classrooms;
• Write down strategies you have never used and that you are thinking of implementing in your future classes;
• Compare the knowledge you had before taking this course and now (What did you already know? What was new to you?);
• In a general way, what will you change in your teaching practice from now on?

Key concepts:

Gender biases, Gender stereotypes, Classes, Strategies, Knowledge, New, Teaching practice, Understand, Learn, Students, Pupils, Behaviour