2. Promote each child's comfortable, empathetic interaction with people from divers backgrounds. Guiding children's development of the cognitive awareness, emotional disposition, and behavioral skills needed to respectfully and effectively learn about differences; comfortably negotiate and adapt to difference; and cognitively understand and emotionally accept the common humanity that all people share.
3. Foster each child�s ability to think critically about bias. Have the cognitive skills to identify "unfair" and "untrue" images (stereotypes), comments, (teasing, name-calling) and behaviors (discrimination) directed at one's own or other's identity (be it gender, race, ethnicity, disability, class, family lifestyle, age, weight, etc) AND having the emotional empathy to know that bias hurts.
4. Cultivate each child's ability to stand up for her/himself and for others in the face of bias. Helping every child learn and practice a variety of ways to act: (a) when another child acts in a biased manner towards her/him; (b) when a child acts in a biased manner towards another child, and (c) when an adult acts in a biased manner.
Holidays Lesson Plan
All About Me Lesson Plan
BOOKS
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children. By Louise Derman-Sparks.
DEFINITIONS Bias Any attitude, belief, or feeling that results in, and helps to justify, unfair treatment of an individual or his or her identity. Homophobia A fear and hatred of gay men and lesbians backed up by institutional policies and power that discriminate against them. Prejudice An attitude, opinion, of feeling formed without adequate prior knowledge, thought or reason. Prejudice can be prejudgment for or against nay person, groups or sex. Racism Any attitude, action or instructional practice backed up by institutional power that subordinates people because of their color. Stereotype An oversimplified generalization about a particular group, race, or sex, which usually carries derogatory implications.
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