Gender differences, questioning (teachers to students), and student engagement
- Gender differences & questioning: Who calls on whom? How often? Who is ignored?
- This could be measured through a talk chart, similar to the one that Dr. Milner gave us for use during our Governor’s School observations.
- I could also make a checklist of some type in Excel format: students’ names, number of times called on individually, number of responses, etc.
- Gender differences & student engagement: In what way are students of one gender engaged with their opposite sex teacher (rambunctious, disparaging, cocky, respectful, etc.).
- This could be done with the checklist/continuum too, or maybe with field notes about the observations : student behaviors would be multiple choice format (head down/head up, looking at teacher/looking elsewhere, leaning forward/slumped, awake/asleep, participating verbal/not participating verbally, etc.)
- This would require some operational definitions:
· Head up, looking at teacher, verbally participating is all categorized as engagement
· Head down, looking elsewhere, not verbally participating is all categorized as being disengagement
- Gender differences: I’ve thought about doing something with the “Gender Equity Quiz” that I found on ERIC. (some kind of case study of one class)
- What are students’ perceptions of gender equity in their class?
- Do the boys perceive this differently from the girls?
- What is the teacher’s perception?
