Oct 5, Exit Slip... Gender Bias and Inquiry Question

Today's inquiry on gender bias in STEAM for all genders was a great starting point on how we, as teachers, can support students better to do what they want. We should encourage students to try a variety of subject areas in school so they all end up with a better understanding of what they enjoy learning. More often than not, most students do not go into a gender-biased faculty because they have never experienced anything about it. If we as teachers do not allow students to play with these different subjects, then subconscious bias will point students to apply to the faculty that most students of their gender go into. Subconscious bias only happens with a lack of experience, which causes students to be scared to go into that faculty. By encouraging curiosity, we help build experience in these students so they have a better knowledge of each subject area and not what their subconscious bias tells them.

My inquiry question is something related to the traditional class room. More specifically different ways to spice it up so that we do not regress on the usual cycle of lecture, homework, exams for mathematics education. However, I will need to see if there is suffcuent research into this idea.