Course: Anti-Bias Education and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Early Childhood
Description
Teachers will understand how to integrate anti-bias learning across all early childhood curriculum areas. Teachers will understand how building children’s positive personal and social identities while also building awareness of and appreciation for diversity (elements of cultural competence) is critical to their children’s success in school and in life.
Topics
Competencies
Knowledge: Teachers will understand how children’s identities develop broadly and early.
Skills: Teachers will learn how to support positive identity development, awareness of differences, and awareness and responses to injustice.
Mindset: The children we serve live in an increasingly diverse society with inequitable outcomes. Anti-bias education is also for all children—not just white children, and not just children of color.
Teachers will understand how to integrate anti-bias learning across all early childhood curriculum areas. Teachers will understand how building children’s positive personal and social identities while also building awareness of and appreciation for diversity (elements of cultural competence) is critical to their children’s success in school and in life.
Topics
- Culturally responsive pedagogy
- Anti-Bias Education
Competencies
Knowledge: Teachers will understand how children’s identities develop broadly and early.
Skills: Teachers will learn how to support positive identity development, awareness of differences, and awareness and responses to injustice.
Mindset: The children we serve live in an increasingly diverse society with inequitable outcomes. Anti-bias education is also for all children—not just white children, and not just children of color.