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Re: Gender-Role Transcendence -- Rachel Landau, 20:58:49 03/28/07 Wed
After reading this message, I felt that these sisters provide such great support for the gender-role transcendence perspective as a positive classification system for gender roles. Instead of classifying and encouraging behaviors, emotions, and thinking processes as masculine or feminine, this example shows that we should just support and encouage the positive characteristics in people that are associated with positive, successful outcomes (but who defines these?). In schools, the classroom and school should feel like a supportive community with open communication (like the family) and teachers challenge all students to strive for success. However, students need scaffolding from teachers and guidance to help set reasonable goals and achieve them. So how do we incorporate these family strategies into the classroom? By making the classroom like the family. Easier said than done, huh?
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Re: Gender-Role Transcendence -- Beth Hansen, 21:18:02 03/28/07 Wed
I definitely think that these sorts of messages can be and should be incorporated into the classroom. Encouraging students by praising them when they are doing well and by getting them back on the right track when they are not doing their best is something that I feel is integral to the classroom experience. The text mentioned how self-esteem (especially in girls) plummets in adolescence. This is a time when students need affirmation and individual praise all the time. I have noticed that days when I am encouraging and praise my students for even the simplest things go much better. The morale in the classroom is increased and students actually perform better. I also think it is crucial to teach adoescent students the importance of setting goals and making plans to help attain those goals. Even if you are just dealing with small goals, stressing the importance of having goals and breaking them down so they are attainable can prove to students that they can achieve their bigger goals in life. It is a learned skill. The part I found particularly interesting about what you said when recapping the Today Show was the part about how the mother said they would celebrate their failures. I think that it is especially important for teachers to admit their mistakes to their students to show them that people of all ages will make mistakes and that it is okay to do so. If teachers could instill a goal-oriented mindset in students and a sense that it is okay to try things because failure is okay, students would be much more ambitious. I think it would definitely clear up some gender-based stereotypes put onto students. Hopefully, we would see more women CEO's and the like.
>On the Today Show on Monday, Meredith Veira hosted a
>segment called "How to Raise a CEO". She interviewed
>four sisters who have all reached high-ranking
>positions with major U.S. corporations. The sisters
>attribute their career successes to the way they were
>raised. The said they were encouraged by both parents
>from an early age to set career goals and create plans
>to achieve their goals. In addition, communication
>among family members was encouraged and expected, and
>"failures were celebrated". They were taught that it
>was okay to fail and were praised for challenging
>themselves and for taking risks. Their father also
>shared his work experiences with the girls on a
>regular basis, and their mother taught them that
>"ambition is an integral part of femininity, and not
>independent from it." Do you think it is possible to
>incorporate some of these strategies into the
>classroom environment?
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