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Gender Issues in Adolescence: Navigating Challenges and Empowering Girls

Presented by Aundria Pressley, this resource helps revisit memories of adolescence and offers strategies to engage girls in class through successful women's stories and journaling. It addresses gender issues, ownership, and interventions in discussions, encouraging trust and boundary setting. The text also provides insights on the importance of adult intervention only when necessary, emphasizing the significance of female role models and respecting girls' rights and boundaries. Tips for male teachers are included to educate and promote empowering practices in the classroom.

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Gender Issues in Adolescence: Navigating Challenges and Empowering Girls

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  1. Presented by Aundria Pressley

  2. Remembering adolescence Revisit memories from our own past

  3. How to engage girls in class • Find material that uses successful women in the storyline • Allow journaling to express their feelings then share the results • This process allows boys to learn about themselves even though they resist at first

  4. Dealing with Gender Issues “Not an age thing; It’s a respect thing” p 52.

  5. Bill of Rights for Girls by Mary Blalock pp 53-55 • The Right to Like Yourself • The Right to Like Your Body • The Right to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too • The Right to Get Angry • The Right to Feel Protected • The Right to Develop Your Brain • The Right to Be Yourself Around Boys • The Right to Your Own Role Models

  6. Ownership Produces Results • Allow discussions that do not have just 1 right answer • Produce trust in these discussions • This will lead to boundaries established by the students themselves • Intervention by adults only when necessary • Use a writing exercise as a follow-up

  7. Culture often defines gender P 37

  8. Role Models • Thin, young, beautiful women • Women who are dependent on others • Women whose livelihood depends on their looks

  9. Facing the Challenges Ahead

  10. Tips for Male Teachers • Educate Yourself about pressures on girls • Compliment a girl’s accomplishments in the classroom not her appearance • Bring competent women into classroom discussions • Always give female student’s their “personal space” • DON’T flirt

  11. Tips for Male Teachers cont. • Avoid gender-based personal questions • Be pro-active about activities that promote female leadership • Be a positive role model for other male colleagues (pp 165-167)

  12. Works Cited • “We Want to Be Known” Learning from Adolescent GirlsEdited by Ruth Shagoury Hubbard, Maureen Barbieri, and Brenda Miller Power. York, Maine: Stenhouse Publishers, 1998. 190pp.

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