Essay about Teachers and Students

I agree with Thomas as far as knowing that boys are usually the ones known for being disruptive and aggressive in class, but there are always exceptions. I don't agree with the notion that boys score worse on tests and at school in general if they have female teachers. As I was growing up I only had four male teachers between elementary and middle school. In elementary school I found it hard and intimidating to talk to my male teachers, but neither did I see the boys in my class finding it easy to talk to them. These male teachers were very seious and didn't have much of a personality. Although most boys are not really talkative even if the male teacher does have a personality. As far as I can remember, even under male instruction, the boys were still the troublemakers and the girls still did better in class. The boys looked forward to recess and lunch time. The difference that I see now between having a male or female teacher is that with a female teacher I felt more comfortable going and talking to her. They have the motherly instincts. I don't remember every seeing one of my female teachers treat a boy different just because they were boys or had behavior problems. They were just as welcomed as girls to come and talk to them.

When it comes to the classroom, there are several differences between girls and boys. There are physical differences in the way their brains work, differences in the room temperature that is best for boys and girls, and differences in how girls and boys respond to various tones of speech (Sax, 2006). While girls prefer soft-spoken teachers, Sax (2006) notes that boys prefer to be spoken to “loudly and in short, direct sentences with clear instructions” (p. 195). According to Sax (2006), “the ideal ambient temperature for boys is about 69 degrees and about 75 degrees for girls” (p. 193-194). Further differences involve how boys and girls learn. McNeil states that “boys may learn better under pressure and when allowed to move around...while girls may perform better in group situations and with a lot of encouragement” (McNeil, 2008). Because of these many differences, it would stand to reason that boys and girls would benefit from being in separate classrooms. According to Hughes (2007), “the teacher would be able to concentrate on the learning-styles of each sex and use the styles to bring out the academic best in each students. Lessons and activities could be designed with a single-sex in mind” (p. 11). As Principal John Fox states, “the single-sex environment enables you to actually focus on the particular needs of each gender, and those needs socially and

Secondly, the interaction between teachers and male and female students. Sociologist Francis (2000) argues that classrooms are still male dominated and that boys are disciplined more frequently and harshly by teachers compared to girls. Therefore, it is seen that boys get more attention than girls as they are disciplined more harshly than girls, leading to girls getting less attention than boys, also in terms of ethnicity, boys from African Caribbean backgrounds are also more likely to be disciplined than white British boys. This may result in boys feeling picked on in school which may result in gender and ethnic differences in achievement.

Much of what I have learned regarding taking consideration and educating of young children has been directed to me by women; with this being the situation whether a male has an effect on the way a child learns or creates can be addressed. Should a male be rehearsing the same teaching methods as women are then does the sexual orientation of the teacher really have any kind of effect on how the child responds to the teacher and in turn how the child learns. Why primary school teaching has been labelled as a typically female profession is likewise something that interests me. Can anyone explain why a female would generally be viewed as more suited to a job than a male like myself? Is it true that this is just on the grounds that women are the child bearers, or is it as an aftereffect of gender stereotyping stemming back to times where the patriarch went up against a "breadwinner" role while women took care of the children or is it due to the other contributing factors?

An experiment at the University of California, Los Angeles proved interesting when a machine taught both boys and girls. The boys ended up scoring higher than when a woman taught them. I am wondering if girls scored higher than the boys did when male teachers teach them? I also wonder how the girls scored when taught by a machine; maybe they scored higher, too. At the secondary school level boys do perform better on technical or scientific subjects. Now this goes back to the first assumption that our brains work differently, or is it because more male teachers may teach these subjects? According to Mooney, teacher of the similar sex may have the "instinctive understanding that an adult will enjoy with a child who is going through a process which he or she went through too" (122). In other words, they can relate better with a child of the same sex. I am a female kindergarten teacher and also have a daughter who is six years old. I have no problem relating to the boys in my class. I think I can relate to any child who is five or six years old.

I would agree with Amelia Newcomb’s findings in The Christian Science Monitor, that boys were easily labeled “learning disabled,” and that boys are assumed to be disruptive and troublemakers (Newcomb, 1-4). However, I disagree with her presumption that more attention needs to be paid “to the male side of the classroom.” Even though there have been studies finding that boys do not score as highly as girls on tests, specifically in reading and writing, I have found that boys are more likely to challenge themselves, due to the competition between others around them, as Newcomb has pointed out. If more focus has been given to girls in the classroom, it has been based upon their lack of ‘presence’ in the classroom. As Myra and David Sadker said in their article, Missing in Interaction, “When girls

When I attended school ( which was many years ago ) the boys were encouraged participate more in science and math related classes and sports related activities ,and girls were encouraged to take home economics , English , cheerleading. As times has changed over the years characteristics of being particular, prim, fashionable ( Wood 2015 ) that was one use to describe a female , the characteristics that once was used in describing a male such as being athletic, professional ,competitive is terms that is now used to describe both genders. Both Genders are more equal in school and school activities. Children are formed from an

Kimura’s book prompted me to do additional research about the way that sex differences affected the performance of children in school and why I have noticed a large number of boys failing in middle school. Bill McBride provided me with some additional insight into this phenomenon. He stated that boys and girls require different teaching methods due to their different learning styles. Much of the way that we teach in middle school is through lecture, which caters better to the way girls learn. We ask kids to sit still and stay on task for long periods of time, which is much easier for girls to do at this age due to the emphasis on listening and school language skills such as literacy. McBride went on to explain the importance of providing opportunities for boys to move throughout the day is necessary because boys are mesmerized by movement, and testosterone only adds to their need and desire to move. Because girls’ brains are better equipped for our current education system, they tend to do better in school (McBride).

Students are affected by the teacher and the teacher by the student like how Plato became one of the the greatest philosophers in the world because of his Teachers aristotle and Socrates over centuries ago. Plato even opened the first higher learning institution in the western world because of the warm affirmation of his teachers Aristotle and Socrates. Likewise the teaching world is very different from one thousand years ago such as the dwindling requirements to become a teacher which could decrease the teacher's ability to teach effectively. This

We all know the obvious difference in boys and girls. Typically, we associate boys with being rougher than girls and spending much of their time playing rambunctiously and getting dirty while most girls prefer to be subdued and tidy. But is that the only dissimilarity in gender? What about school work and academic performance along with academic success? Can gender be a predominating factor in determining a child’s IQ level? Is there a legitimate difference in boys and girls when determining academic ability? And, does gender help determine any level of academic success? Some might say that these are some pretty absurd questions but others who have taught both boys and girls in

Teachers are one of the major problems of the education system.They are crucial to the student 's performance and their learning process. The Department of Education has found that " teachers are the most important factor in determining student achievement."(U.S. Department of Education) This is true, since teachers are the ones that teach students the academics that they will need in the future. It 's the teacher 's responsibility to get their students ready with the material that they will need. Correspondingly teachers are clearly one of the greatest factors in the quality of education received by students.

In this case, public school teachers are taught to regard girl's behavior as the standard way of acting in class. Boys will “instinctively” differ from this feminized standard behavior, and so will often find themselves in trouble more than girls. Educational psychologists found that girls hold a greater need in pleasing the teachers, and therefore aim to get high grades. Boys, on the other hand, will motivate themselves to study if the subject material triggers an interest in them.

Moving on, to gender roles in education as Sadker once said “ sitting in the same classroom, reading the same textbook, listening to the same teacher, boys and girls receive very different educations.”(1994). People who Identify as female have been treated differently sense day one, as state din the article; “Teachers socialize girls towards feminine ideal. Girls are praised for being neat, quite, and calm, whereas boys are encouraged to think independently,

There is a vast region of differences set in how girls, and boys learn differently; with schools using this information they are able to empower and better educate their students. Peter Meyer makes this a key point to bring up in: “Kathy Piechura-Couture, a professor at the Institute for Educational Reform at Stetson University in Deland, Florida, has studied children at the Woodward elementary school in Deland, which has had separate classes for boys and girls for three years. She concluded that boys and girls are different enough that they demand, or should be offered, separate schools. "We looked at gain scores and concluded that there is a significant difference for boys when put in separate classes," says Piechura-Couture. Over the years, she explains, other researchers have discovered a significant number of differences between boys and girls that affect their learning abilities at any given

Today's society is vastly different from that of years past. Years ago, elementary teachers, along with everybody else in society, put more emphasis on boys' education. This is understandable if we recall that at that time men were the ones who were working and running the show, while the womans' job was to stay home and tend to the children. At that time boys were treated fairly in the school system. The boys' behaved rowdy and aggressive as boys do, but the teachers accepted it, to an extent, because they understood that boys will be boys and that this was their natural behavior. The boys would outgrow their anti-social behavior in due time. Unfortunately this isn't the case in today's society. The society of today rewards feminine behavior and frowns upon what is considered masculine behavior. Many female teachers, having been influenced by society, unconsciously frown upon the behavior of their male students constantly. Thomas says that "there is a direct response between a child's academic achievement and a favorable response from the teacher ." (122) If this is true, which I believe it is, what messages are teachers giving to boys when their behavior is constantly being criticized.