Edutopia – Kristine Napper
“Everybody has implicit biases, and left unacknowledged or unchallenged, those biases can affect the expectations we hold for students. Our beliefs about a student’s abilities might be impacted by language, disability, race, culture, gender, socioeconomic level, etc. In Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives, Sonia Nieto explains the harm done by well-intentioned teachers who refuse to “place the same rigorous demands on their students of color as they do on white students…. Such ‘accommodations’ may unintentionally give students the message that teachers believe [they] are incapable of learning.” There’s a fine line.” (more)