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Understanding Bias and its Impact
Equity | K-12
We all have biases, whether we realize it or not. Biases can impact the way we think about and behave around other people, and can lead to harmful disparities in an educational setting. That’s why it’s essential for teachers to be able to spot biases and foster multicultural awareness of diverse values, beliefs, and perceptions.
You’ll begin this course by defining and understanding your own culture and perspectives so you can better understand the cultures of others. You’ll reflect on your own social–emotional response to diverse cultures and engage with strategies that will help you and your students respond with more understanding and empathy toward others. In addition, you’ll explore the negative ramifications of issues such as generalizations, “isms,” and different forms of bias (implicit, explicit, unconscious, and conscious).
With the knowledge and strategies from this course, you’ll be able to better understand different cultures and help your school community become more responsive and inclusive for all students.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Considerations for assessing bias and reflecting on one’s own culture and belief systems
- Ways to support students in showing sensitivity and understanding to others
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Evaluate culture to help you with implementation strategies that will help the school community become more culturally responsive and inclusive.
- Develop a definition and understanding of one’s own culture and perspective in order to develop perspective to understand the culture of others.
- Examine how generalizations impact the way we see and relate to students.
- Critique your own social‒emotional response to student diversity by developing the right mindset, engaging in self-refection, checking implicit biases, practicing social‒emotional awareness, and holding a stance on the impact of your interactions with students.
- Compare forms of bias including implicit, explicit, unconscious, and conscious bias.
- Interpret the different types of bias so that it can be communicated to students.
- Develop an understanding and empathy for others regarding the destructive nature of “isms”.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
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- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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