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Gender diversity is an ongoing conversation and much has changed since GYG first came out in 2018. Get some help with conversations you're already having on hot topics like transgender people in sport and gender-affirming health care for children and youth. Learn to make a power move with effective strategies for gender-friendly change in spaces where you spend time.
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"I wish I had a copy of this book to give to every teacher, principal, counsellor, parent, partner, boss and co-worker of a trans, gender variant or non-binary person in the world."
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Learn to self-advocate at school with Gegi.
Tools for welcoming gender diversity in teacher education.
Despite gender identity and gender expression human rights protections in every Canadian province and territory, Canadian teacher education is full of barriers to transgender and/or gender non-conforming (TGNC) people.
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Often, these barriers are 'business as usual' processes and structures that people who work in teacher education seldom even think twice about, but that TGNC teacher candidates surface just by being there.
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This resource was created from the findings of an action research project in the Queen's Faculty of Education, and guides teacher education programs in creating a 'Frequently Asked Questions' document for TGNC teacher candidates. Creating an FAQ document together gets staff and faculty into the game of identifying barriers to these still under-represented candidates, and reveals work yet to be done in a particular program.
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Ready for classroom use.
This collection of classroom-ready lesson plans provides teachers with tools to fully integrate (not just add-and-stir) gender diversity into their curriculum, talk with students about gender diversities of all kinds, and foster classroom communities that are more welcoming of the many ways in which gender is lived, including but not limited to people who are under the transgender umbrella.
Sections target Elementary (K-5), Middle Years (6-9), and Secondary (10-12) classrooms with subject-specific lesson plans in mathematics, English language arts, social studies, drama, health and physical education, and science. From read-alouds with early literacy picture books to creating multi-modal gender fanzines, and from statistically modeling the rise of gender-neutral pronoun usage to analyzing gender characterization in dramatic monologues, Teaching about Gender Diversity will help you walk this road with over thirty educators who enfold our changing world of gender into their teaching.