Anti-Bias Resources for the Classroom (2023)

FAQs

How can teachers eliminate biases in the classroom? ›

The 4 Goals of Anti-Bias Education: Each child will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities.

Adult Goal 3, Justice: Identify how you have been advantaged or disadvantaged by the isms (ableism, classism, heterosexism, racism, sexism) and the stereotypes or prejudices you have absorbed about yourself or others. Adult Goal 4, Activism: Explore your ideas, feelings, and experiences of social justice activism.

In an anti-bias classroom, children learn to be proud of themselves and of their families, to respect human differences, to recognize bias, and to speak up for what is right.

It includes helping children feel and behave respectfully, warmly, and confidently with people who are different from themselves. It includes encouraging children to learn both about how they are different from other children and about how they are similar.

Diversity goes beyond multiculturalism and looks at 12 areas where people may have biases: age, race, gender, class, ability, appearance, culture, family composition, belief, sexuality, language and lifestyle.

Education Bias Examples

A teacher reporting a Muslim student for fighting in class, but not the white student that was also involved in the fight. A school placing students who speak English with accents in lower-level classes without assessing those students' academic skill levels.

Anti-bias education encourages educators to examine their own biases and cultural identities so that they may have strong self-awareness and also be aware of negative messages they may inadvertently be sending to students.

What does the anti-bias approach allow teachers? ›

The anti-bias approach allows teachers to foster their own beliefs and attitudes about diversity. The professional approach to working out conflicts with a teaching colleague is to tell the director or supervisor what is wrong. Record keeping may be necessary as part of an accreditation process.

Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education is organized into four sections: Instruction, Classroom Culture, Family and Community Engagement, and Teacher Leadership.

Anti-bias education is an approach to early learning that uses value-based principles to encourage respecting and embracing differences while acting against bias and unfairness. The goal is to create an environment of identity development so children can achieve their fullest potential.

Learning Objectives

define 'bias' identify types of bias in others and self. examine personal biases and challenge their validity. brainstorm ways to become more aware of biases.

The Anti-bias Framework (ABF) is a set of anchor standards and age-appropriate learning outcomes divided into four domains—identity, diversity, justice and action (IDJA).

- Teach children how to challenge biases about who they are. Give them tools to confront those who act biased against them. - Use accurate and fair images in contrast to stereotypes, and encourage children to talk about the differences.

What are the three bias components? ›

What is Assessment bias? Academic assessment bias refers to assessments that unfairly penalize or impact students based on their personal characteristics, such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, religion and place of origin.

The negativity bias is a cognitive bias that results in adverse events having a more significant impact on our psychological state than positive events. Negativity bias occurs even when adverse events and positive events are of the same magnitude, meaning we feel negative events more intensely. ¹.

Instructors may assume that students from certain backgrounds or social groups have differing intellectual abilities and/or ambitions. For example, an instructor might assume that a student from a certain background will be satisfied with lower achievement levels.

It is a lack of objectivity when looking at something. The bias can be both intentional and unintentional. For example, a person may like one shirt more than two others when given a choice because the shirt they picked is also their favorite color.

Three types of bias can be distinguished: information bias, selection bias, and confounding.

One of the best ways to guard against confirmation bias is to grade “blind,” or to block the names of the students you are grading until after you've assessed their work.

What are 3 ways you can challenge your biases? ›