1) How do you think most teachers would do on the tests you took?
2) How would the context in which you teach (suburban, urban, rural, early, middle, or high school, etc.) influence your answers on this scale?
3) How do you think a teacher's hidden biases could influence students? At what point developmentally do you think teacher biases become influential to a student?
Answer:
1) I personally don't think teachers would be as biased as students are because they have been exposed to many different disabilities, ethnicity's, races, religions and many other characteristics. Teachers have to be fair to all students no matter what characteristics they possess in order to be a good teacher. I'm not saying teachers AREN'T biased in some way, but they are more aware of how different people are from one another than students are.
2) If you are only exposed to a certain ethnicity, race, or religion because of the area you live in, you are obviously going to be more biased towards that certain characteristic because it is what you are used to and its familiar to you. If you were to be moved to a new place where you have a wide range of characteristics among the students, you would still favor the students with characteristic you are more comfortable and familiar with.
3) A teachers biases could influence students in the sense that, if a student catches on that his or her teacher favors a certain group of students based on similarities among the students in that group, they could start to feel left out, or unwanted because the teacher doesn't give him or her as much attention. I think it becomes influential from the start. If the teacher doesn't spend the time of day on some students compared to others throughout the school year, those left out students will start to think that's how its going to be. I think the teacher has to put aside their biases from the very start.
2) If you are only exposed to a certain ethnicity, race, or religion because of the area you live in, you are obviously going to be more biased towards that certain characteristic because it is what you are used to and its familiar to you. If you were to be moved to a new place where you have a wide range of characteristics among the students, you would still favor the students with characteristic you are more comfortable and familiar with.
3) A teachers biases could influence students in the sense that, if a student catches on that his or her teacher favors a certain group of students based on similarities among the students in that group, they could start to feel left out, or unwanted because the teacher doesn't give him or her as much attention. I think it becomes influential from the start. If the teacher doesn't spend the time of day on some students compared to others throughout the school year, those left out students will start to think that's how its going to be. I think the teacher has to put aside their biases from the very start.
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