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Directions: As completely and accurately as possible, describe the interactions between the teacher and one selected student. Include direct quote and descriptions of the teacher and the students, including facial expressions, gestures, and voice quality. Be careful, however, to avoid making judgments.
time teacher quotes, actions, etc. student quotes, actions, etc. 11:05 Asking all students to come to carpet All students come to the carpet and sit quietly down. 11:31 Teacher tells students to line up for lunch Each student gets there lunch or money and lines up until ready to leave 11:22 Teacher tells a student to go flip her card Student flips card and I see when she comes back she is crying 12:01 The teacher comes into the lunch room Students put there trash in the trash can and line up near the door. 11:15 Teacher is giving the students directions All students are paying watching what she is doing and not talking 11:20 Teacher is teaching a lesson One student gets up uses the bathroom even though he is not aloud to do that when she is talking. 11:31 Again teacher calling each table to line up for lunch Each table the students have there heads down waiting to be called. 11:00 Teacher tells students to walk around the room. Each student does to get all of there energy out. continued on the next page
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Now, lets pay special attention to gender equity practices. Respond to the following questions by choosing the correct response from the drop-down menu in the column on the right. Please be cognizant of what the word proportionate and its variation mean. For instance, if there are twice as many boys as girls in a classroom, a teacher who exhibits good gender equity habits would naturally call on boys with twice the frequency as that for girls.
Teacher-Student Interactions very frequently how often the teacher and students interact with each other very frequently males and females verbal comments (praise, remediation, instructions, etc.) with proportionate frequency sometimes teacher calls on females with proportionate frequency sometimes females and males receive constructive comments in terms of conduct with proportionate frequency very frequently teacher responds to answers provided by students with equity (praise, clarification and follow-up questions, etc.) very frequently teacher spends proportionate amounts of time working one-on-one with females and males Classroom Activities very frequently teacher maintains a cooperative classroom atmosphere sometimes teacher regularly utilizes small group activities rarely teacher uses non-competitive grading scheme (for example, favors criterion referenced over norm referenced) Teaching Considerations sometimes teacher avoids using gender neutral language very frequently teacher uses real world examples that appeal to both males and females very frequently teacher exhibits fairness in treatment of males and females not observed teacher puts a stop to any actions by students that might be considered sexist very frequently teacher promotes active involvement of all students regardless of sex
In the space below, please reflect upon your observation. What did you learn about this teachers interactions with the one individual student? What did you learn about this teachers interactions regarding gender equity? What techniques did you observe that you would use in your own classroom? What would you change to enhance the learning?
The teacher was fair to each of the students no one student got treated differently. There were more boys then girls so of course there was going to be more boys called on but only because there were more of them then girls. Letting the students get out there energy and have some free time. Also playing music wile they work independently.