Sunday, February 27, 2011

Gender in the Classroom

I am a speech communications major here at Metro and I am minoring in Marketing. Majority of my professors that I have had at Metro are all female in the communications department. In my marketing classes I have majority male professors. This semester, I am taking 6 classes, 5 on campus and 1 online course; all of the classes are for my communications major. All of my professors this semester are females and 95% of the students in the classes are females too. In my gender and pop culture class, we have two males in the class, my teacher interacts with the males in the class the same way she intereacts with the females in the class. After observing my class and how my professors intereact with the different genders in the class I can strongly see that my teachers treat all students equally, whether male or female.
     Last semester in my business communication class, my professor was a male and the class had half females and half males. I noticed my teacher would call on the males in the class more often than the females, he would give the males more compliments on assignments than the females, and I sometimes felt he didnt "see" the females in the class. I remember sending this professor an e-mail and I waited two weeks for a reply; I felt like this professor had a sexist attitude towards females and all of us females in the class noticed this. I remember the males in our class got better grades on assignments/tests than the females in the class.
     After reading chapter 8 of woods, I noticed that I am one of those students that learns better when I have a professor that is the same sex as me. I think I achieve better academically if I could go to a single sex college. I do better in a class room where the teacher treats all students equally and isn't sexist.

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