Gender Equity.

other player. This at the middle school level is not appropriate for the girls and boys to interact in. Their hormones just a little too much. Another difference I noticed was the desire of guys to be with guys and girls to be with girls. This had nothing to do with attraction but dealt with the misunderstanding of skill level. The men perceive the women to be inferior in sports skills so in their group they want guys. The men seem to rather have the least skilled guy over the best skilled girl. I feel they do this because it would be embarrassing for them to be shown up by a girl. So it is our job, as teachers, to do away with this stereotype, and make both genders understand they can benefit skill wise from mix gender activities. In the elementary level the major difference was the age-old argument that girls nasty and guys nasty. The girls definitely do not want to be paired with guys and vice versa. In elementary it had nothing to do with skill level but everything to do with just the gender. I remember putting a boy with a girl at Buck Lake and it was like I had made a kid eat peas for the first time. So the difference in elementary and middle school is just the reason why the boys don’t want to be paired with girls. So in noticing that I feel that yes I was biased at the elementary level and I figure I did that because I really wanted to keep the interest up. I noticed that the one time I paired different genders the productivity of the boy went down. I guess that scared me so I shied away from it, but now looking back maybe I should have paired them up. The students will have to learn one day that the two genders can work together to accomplish a goal and what better time than in elementary. At RAA middle there were multiple time that I mixed the two genders and I feel that I did a good job with that. I got production from both as I paired boy and girl in the final class to play basketball golf. I feel that I am biased to a degree in that at the middle school level I expect more, from a skill standpoint, from the guys than I do the girls. I am not saying that is right but I can see that I do that. One way to correct that is to always have the girls doing exactly what the guys are doing. We should not lower the skill level on the basis of gender, but high expectations should be for both genders. I feel that educators should practice the technique of videotape. If educators videotape their teaching they can better see if they are having gender bias in the classroom. A lot of times the problems we have are not seen by us, but by another eye that is watching us. So the best advice I have is for us teachers to let the videotape be our watchful eye.