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Bill, the teacher that Matt was observing, allowed the class to do "boys vs girls" for their study game for the upcoming benchmark. Allowing this excludes transgender students, as well as leading to disparaging remarks between the students.

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Step 2: Take Stock of Varying Perspectives

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Step 2: Take Stock of Varying Perspectives

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Various Perspectives Include:
- Bill, the experienced teacher
- Matt, the first year teacher
- The students of various genders

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Challenges for this scenario include:
-  You want to allow the students to have more control over their own education, but you also don't want to allow them to exclude other students unknowingly.
- There is a sort of power dynamic between the more experienced teacher and the brand new teacher.

Opportunities Include:
- Matt has an opportunity to learn for this experience and grow as a teacher

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Bill said, "'If you let students make decisions, they’ll take ownership of their learning.'" While this is a good thought, it was actually only a few students who decided that the class should do "boys vs girls", not all of the students. In this situation, it makes more sense to randomize the teams for the game.

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Something that Matt could do is ask Bill about different ways of engaging the class. This could lead to a discussion about why boys vs girls may not be the best way to go about things.

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In this situation, Matt could try to have a conversation with Bill about what took place in class, but ultimately he cannot control how Bill goes about teaching his class. What Matt can control is how he uses what he learned when teaching his own class, and apply different techniques to engage students and allow them to make their own decisions.

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For the long term, Matt can use what he learned and apply it when he is a teacher. There are other ways to engage the class, and other ways to allow students to make their own decisions without letting a few students in the class decide on splitting the class between boys and girls.