juliannrosizky

Current Mood: cranky

What first caught me attention with this article was the title “Music and male teachers: Marching to the beat of the men's movement drums”.  This article talks about how boys are considered underachievers, and how men teachers are over powered by women teachers.  In talking about how boys are underachievers, in comparison to girls, I believe this is a false assumption.  Teachers need to make sure they do not treat the boys and the girls in the class as different, as all children should have the same education opportunity to learn.  My question is, has any one, in their placements seen boys and girls being treated differently than girls? And if so, in what way?  As well, from my own experiences with teaching at schools over the years, I have not seen many male teachers in the classrooms.  This year, for the first time, there has been more than a handful of male teachers, which I believe is very beneficial to a classroom.  Not only can the boys finally have a male role model in the classroom, but male teachers also provide the children with the same education as a woman teacher can.

            Such a quote as this one… “Central to the argument is that boys are currently out of control because they are lacking suitable male role models. Thus, there is an ever increasing demand for there to be concerted attempts made to attract men to the teaching profession, and especially in those areas which have been deemed as 'feminised'.”.  Do you think that this statement is correct, or incorrect, in the sense that boys seem to be lacking a suitable role model in the classroom, or do you think that there is a fine line between teaching a child and being a role model to them?  I believe that both parents and teacher need to work together to role model for the children.  It is not only up to the teacher to role model, if the child is not getting adequate role models at home.

            The only relation I found in this article that had to do with males, and music, is that if a school hires a make music teacher, it may decrease the amount of fooling around, caused by the students.  It is true, from my own experience; the males have that dominant voice in the classroom, which gets the attention of children faster than it would take a woman…and if the children are interactive with music tools, loud music will be made.  Male teachers will be more able to calm the students down faster and quicker than a woman teacher. Do you agree?

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