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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes teachers embrace the need for and goals of anti-bias education, yet are not sure how to make them part of their daily program. If we think of the classroom as a laboratory for children learning about themselves, the world around them, and for developing their interactions with children and adults, then incorporating anti-bias themes into daily curriculum becomes natural. In this article, we focus on short-term and long-term strategies that enable you to bring the four goals of anti-bias education to life in your daily program.
Groundwork
ABE Core Learning Goals
The four core goals of anti-bias education are the framework for planning learning opportunities, which may be embedded in existing curriculum activities or are the primary focus.
Anti-bias learning opportunities enable children to think and talk about their ideas and feelings about themselves, the differences and similarities among people, and about fairness and unfairness in people’s interactions with each other. Through these activities, teachers gather invaluable information about children’s thinking. They also learn about the influence that prevailing stereotyping or prejudices in their home, community, and in the larger society have on the children’s ...