How does gender affect the teaching profession?

 How does gender affect the teaching profession? 

    A lot of topics arise when you bring up the question of gender and jobs. With any job, some people can argue that one gender fits the role the best. A few years ago, we saw men as businessmen and doctors and women as nurses and teachers. While I think a lot of this thinking has changed, there are still some stereotypes when it comes to job. Something that I found really interesting while reading this week's module came from the podcast on gender and education. It says that "women make up a majority of the education workforce but occupy barely a quarter of top leadership positions". Most people still have an idea that men are at the very top and something can become less in value when it is done by a women. I think when it comes to the leadership positions in education such as a dean of students or a principal, most people would like to see a man because there is a stigma that men are better at being the boss. 

    Another thing I saw in the module was the question of "Are men discouraged from working as elementary school teachers?". I have seen some male elementary school teachers but every single one of my teachers were female until I got to middle school. I think people see women as more gentle and caring towards little students so they are better fitted to teach elementary school. This combined with the fact that not a lot of men choose to teach elementary can be very discouraging to men. I like to think that these views are becoming more modern and jobs can be for every gender, but I still think there is this unwanted stigma around some of these jobs. I do not believe that gender affects the teaching profession. I think both male and females make wonderful teachers and can teach great kids no matter what the stereotype is.

Do I have the full picture?

 Do I have the full picture?

I do not think I have the full picture and I don't think a lot of people actually do. In schools, sometimes they only focus on certain points when teaching and that leaves things out for us to learn about. I also think that we are continuously growing and learning things along the way that help us move towards seeing the whole picture. 

Something that always sticks with me when I read about a new event is that there are two sides in every story. In history classes we would learn about wars and events that happened in the past but majority of the time these events would be told by the winner. It makes you think about the other side and if the winners were actually telling the truth or spinning it to make them look good. When learning about World War I, we could say we have the full picture on what happened but we weren't taught about what happened to the losers. I think this applies to us in real life that oftentimes we think we have the full picture but in reality we are not seeing both sides. 

Just like in Victoria's Tik Tok, she was explaining all the things that she wasn't taught in school about a very significant event. She was not taught about Ruby Bridges in school and it turns out that not a lot of people were. It makes it very apparent that kids cannot get the full picture if schools are constantly leaving things out about important topics because they don't want to talk about it or even feel like that event is not significant. We need to be able to talk about the things that are going on and tell both sides of every story so then kids might be able to actually get a full picture.