What’s Happening?
This post is well overdue for obvious reasons. As i’m sure is the case for many of the TLP participants, all normality went out the window weeks before the schools even closed and my focus was ensuring the wellbeing of pupils and staff.
Having had time to reflect, I have decided to continue with the program this year. It seems a shame to lose all of the work i’ve done thus far and furthermore be left without any kind of answers to the questions i originally posed.
What’s Working?
- I will definitely still be able to survey parents about attitudes toward and perceptions of gender (and my survey may even get more responses than anticipated, given that parents are currently more attuned to school emails).
- My current role involves delivering lessons around equality and diversity for pupils from Nursery -P7. This gives me a platform to continue to explore gender with pupils.
- Twitter continues to be a source of support and ideas for my practice.
- I am undertaking an online CPD run by the University of Strathclyde entitled Gender Representation in the Media.
What Am I Not Sure About?
- Setting survey questions that provide meaningful data
- Opening the school up to potential criticism by doing the survey
- How to gather the views of pupils. It may be that i select a few ‘focus’ year groups
