I feel so much of this!! It's hard to be the go-to teacher for SPED students ("but they do so much better in your classroom!") I bet it's tough to be one of the only men as well. My students were just talking about how girls do better in school and they are wondering if that's because the majority of teachers are women. As usual, the students are on to something...
I feel so much of this!! It's hard to be the go-to teacher for SPED students ("but they do so much better in your classroom!") I bet it's tough to be one of the only men as well. My students were just talking about how girls do better in school and they are wondering if that's because the majority of teachers are women. As usual, the students are on to something...
If I had a dollar for every time I heard, “They do so much better in your classroom!” I’d be able to retire from teaching. 😜
I bet.
Your students are very observant! Female students do better with female teachers.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30430
I’ll have to show them this! I’ve seen similar data about teachers and students of color of course, but not this.