Gender Identity In The Classroom

In this chapter it talks about gender identity and how we educators can bring in different methods to help children break down gender stereotypes made in our social norm. Just like racial identity, gender identity plays huge role in our society where there are still traditional gender roles exist in many places in the world. During the circle talk, many of us mentioned about how certain colors belong to male or female and how everyone can like everyone can like different colors. Even such a small issues like colors, it is showing how much we are making boundaries of which gender can like or do. When I was in grade 6 gym class, gym teacher picked two captains who were male and female and he made them pick their team members. For the girl captain,