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Assignment:

For this assignment, you will imagine yourself as an anti-bias teacher for a class of preschoolers aged 3-5 years old. You just witnessed a conflict between some of your students ad you need to address it at the next group time. You spring into action and start to plan:

First:

Make-up a conflict that you might see in a classroom of preschoolers. Then choose one of the four anti-bias goals to be the goal for your planning. You will type out the complete goal & the conflict.

Here are the four goals (2nd edition pages 15-17, if you do not have the 2nd edition, click here):

Goal 1: Identify

• Teachers will nurture each child's construction of knowledgeable & confident personal & social identities.
• Children will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, & positive social identities.

Goal 2: Diversity

• Teachers will promote each child's comfortable, empathetic interaction with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Children will express comfort & joy with human diversity, use accurate language for human differences, & form deep, caring human connections across all dimensions of human diversity.

Goal 3: Justice

• Teachers will foster each child's capacity to critically identify bias & will nurture each child's empathy for the hurt bias causes.
• Children will increasingly recognize unfairness (injustice), have language to describe unfairness, & understand that unfairness hurts.

Goal 4: Activism

• Teachers will cultivate each child's ability & confidence to stand up for oneself & for others in the face of bias.
• Children will demonstrate a sense of empowerment & the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions.

Second:

Choose an anti-bias children's book that addresses the particular bias you witnessed during the conflict. Remember, the chosen book must also support the anti-bias goal that you chose. You must provide the title, author, illustrator, and amazon link to the book.

Third:

Plan a developmentally appropriate activity that you can do with the class as a follow-up after reading the storybook that you chose. Remember, the activity must relate to the conflict and support your chosen anti-bias goal. You must describe the activity, how it will work in a group setting, and what questions (you must provide at least 3) you will use to direct the class discussion with the children. Also, provide that source that inspired your activity.