Boys line up. Girls line up.
posted by Sarah @ 9:57 AM
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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On the one hand, I agree; making a transition a language rich experience is a good thing. All kinds of language can be used to call kids to line up. The students who went to the frog center first line up. Another is to call them forward one at a time and give them an (easy) quiz question based on the days learning so far. "what is 2 + 3? Right! hi five and line up". I don't agree with the part about avoiding gender separation at all costs always. That can be a good way to line up at times as well, as long as it is not overused.
I agree with Sue. Ditto on that, Sue!
I also agree with Sue. As I was reading this section the first thing that came to my mind was that I am not really sure it matters if we refer to the students as "girls" or "boys" as we line up. Just like the world not being fair, we come across some sort of gender separation every day.
They already know there's a difference between boys and girls. I used to see studies about how often teachers call on boys/girls and the supposed message that sends. We line up many different ways. It did make me think about "show & tell" because I have always allowed for 1 boy question and 1 girl question to avoid one or the other getting ignored and hopefully get the kids to call on someone they might not have. Also, I don't think that type of "separation" is negative. I do agree with asking both boys and girls equally to do all jobs and not separating them into stereotypical gender roles, but I don't see anything wrong with it when there is nothing negative attached.
I have to be honest that I have used this before. I have also heard teachers who say, "girls before boys, line up" out of respect. I can see how this would cause problem in the future if you take it has segregating the sexes. I do try to use different grouping strategies other than this one, but am guilty of sometimes stating the obvious. This will make me more aware.
I agree that we should not use gender as a basis for organizing groups. Gender based language has no place in our classroom or today's society. However, discrimination as well as segregation has many different looks. I did not like the example: "Anyone over 4'10 answer the odd questions, 4'10 and over do the even ones.
I use what I call "lining up with conditions". It is pretty much just setting up a set of conditions that the children have to think about. For example...line up if your dad has brown hair and a mustache. It is fun for the kids and after a while, the kids can do it themselves.
Other things that I do is give and answer and whom ever can think of a question that has THAT answer, they line up first.
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