On this page, you’ll find resources and tools to help you to reflect on your own practice in the classroom with regards to gender equality. There’s a brief description of how and why to use each one, and also information on how to take a whole school approach to tackling gender inequality.
Girls’ participation in Advanced Mathematics- a factsheet for teachers
Contains data, information on research, and many strategies that can be employed to raise girls’ participation in maths.
Self Audit: Strategies for increasing girls’ participation in level 3 mathematics
Use this to review your practice and/or the practice of the rest of your faculty and school.
Gender stereotypes and their effect on young people
A good summary of unconcious bias and the effect of gender stereotypes on young people that led on to the following tools to help you evaluate your classroom practice and implement inclusive learning.
10 Inclusive Teaching Tips for Teachers
Good advice for promoting equality in the classroom. These teaching tips were developed from research into gender and behaviour patterns. We recognise that there are variants and these behaviours are not the experience of all individuals. Inclusive teaching is intended to support all students.
Classroom interactions self-evaluation template
Research suggests that boys tend to dominate in the classroom, answering more questions and getting more of the teacher’s attention, usually without the teacher being aware of any imbalance. This template will help you to assess your own practice.
Gender Action
A whole-school programme challenging stereotypes. Gender stereotypes limit identities, experiences and life chances.This toolkit provides tips and ideas of how to break that cycle.
Further reading and resources around gender balance and promoting equality
A collection of resources, reports and guidance from across the internet, to help inspire and inform your own Gender Action projects.
Do your own survey into boys' attitudes to Level 3 maths and girls' attitudes to Level 3 maths
If you want to do some research of your own, looking into why students do (or don’t) choose to continue with maths post-16 at your school, here is a very simple survey that you can use. Instructions are simply to send the survey to all post-16 students. Answers are left as free responses to avoid any leading questions. You can analyse student responses to see which factors that affect participation they match up with and also note the ideas that students come up with for promoting maths to their own sex. There are two versions (one for boys, and one for girls) to send seperately, with the aim of avoiding any stereotype threat. Alternatively, you could create a single version of the form asking for their sex/gender and rephrase the final question to ‘… students of your gender‘.