Female Teachers Research Paper

Female Teachers Throughout a person’s life they will perceive others in a variety of different ways. A misconception is a person’s conclusion of another person’s character, appearance or trait that may be a false perception of who that person truly is. Other times a perception may capture the truth about another person. Stereotypes in society are widely accepted generalizations about a group of people that typically ignore specificalities or individuals in a population, while misconceptions are views or opinions of the group or individuals that are not typically true. Society employs the use of stereotypes to easily categorize large groups of people and typically these stereotypes lean towards a negative light. Misconceptions are used by …show more content…
No one in society has ever been free from the stinging eyes of a stereotype or misconception, not even those who devote themselves to the teaching of the next generations; Teachers, specifically …show more content…
This is a generalization spurred on by social media, especially because many of the instances seen in videos of wild classrooms and insubordinate children in those classes is spotlighted all over social media platforms such as twitter or instagram. While the majority of these videos of wild classrooms do appear to have female teachers, social media tends to highlight the worst of these cases while in reality the majority of classes conducted by female teachers tend to be much more controlled or more typical of how a classroom should be in general. In an interview Christina Huber, a John Adams Elementary School teacher stated that she had hardly ever had any problems with controlling her classes even when compared to other male teachers. Furthermore, this reinforces that female teachers hold just as much authority over a class as their male counterparts and the insubordination of students is more based on the students in the class than the teacher of the