Controversial Study Suggests Gender Matters in Teachers
Monday August 28, 2006
A recent study suggests that you may not learn as much as some other students in your classroom if your teacher’s gender is different from your own.
This controversial report suggests that males learn more from male teachers and females learn more from female teachers. The research is hotly debated, and some educators say the conclusions are just plain wrong. What do you think? Is it possible, for instance, that teachers may be more in tune with students of the same gender? Could it be a matter of learning styles, coincidence, poor research, or is it really a matter of gender? Feel free to comment!
Comments
In my opinion, students and teachers may clash due to personality conflicts. As a teacher, I have seen situations where it was best that the male student was put into a female teacher’s class and it worked out just find. It may also be the other way around.
Thanks Ava, but I had trouble understanding your comment, probably because you are a woman and I a man. Perhaps if you got a female/male interpretor I would be able to follow what you’re trying to say. In deepest regards, Michael J Dinan
That’s pseudopsychology (aka psychobabble). It is inaccurate; it hasn’t been scientifically proven.
I think it’s very true that when you learn from a different gender you don’t learn as much. From personal experience.
I had so many Female teachers in my life..and I never flunked as much as I did last year, when I had a male teacher for the first time. It was like no matter how good I did I still sunk to a low grade.
Even when my friends see me improving I’m still getting low grades. But the year before I was one of the best students in class, my teacher would even dismiss me from a lecture because she didn’t think I had a problem in the work.
But last year was horrible, and I never really like him either. (lol)
Now I’m going to High School, and I think my Math teacher is going to be a Male again…Oh Lord.