What's Wrong with Normal is a must-have handbook for educators who want to champion gender equality in their classrooms. Using real-life student experiences and cutting-edge research, Dr. Jennifer Roberts develops an innovative framework to empower educators to recognize and address the unconscious gender bias often normalized in our classrooms. This premier learning tool will help you: Improve understandings of your influence on the social learning process of your students.Develop your skills to recognize the inequitable gender norms silently embedded in classroom practices that obstruct gender equality.Advance your insight into your own perceptions of masculinity and femininity and how those perceptions impact the growth of your students.Enhance your awareness of the unconscious assumptions you may be making about your students based on their gender, race, class, etc.Elevate your comprehension of how gender and other differences may influence the behavioral expectations you have for your students.This groundbreaking handbook fills a much-needed knowledge gap between the failing educational policies designed to promote gender equality in schools and the daily classroom practices that continue to unknowingly reproduce inequalities. Using the innovative tools and easily applicable chapter exercises educators are empowered to recognize and remove the many obstacles that continue to limit girls' success and undermine their confidence. As you learn to create more social equality in your classroom you can lead your students to new and more enriched levels of socioemotional learning. This book will help you unlock your potential to transform your campus from surviving to thriving - improving student performance and outcomes through new and sustainable cultural change
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