Cultural Competency
Respecting different cultural backgrounds and customs, different ways of communicating and different traditions and values.
What is valuing diversity?
Affinity Bias, Perception Bias, Halo Effect, and Confirmation Bias are all examples of...
What are examples of implicit bias?
Understanding that your own culture – all your experiences, backgrounds, knowledge, skills, beliefs, values and interests – shapes who you are, where you fit into your family, school, community, and society, and how you interact with students.
Looking to confirm our own opinions and pre-existing ideas.
What is confirmation bias?
Knowing there are many factors that can affect interactions across cultures, including historical experiences and relationships between cultures in a local community.
Feeling a connection to those similar to us.
What is affinity bias?
A student wears their hijab for the first month of school, and notices nobody else wearing one or acknowledging that she is. She shows up to school one day without it, and is never seen wearing it again. This student is [ ] to the dominant culture.
What is assimilating?
An Asian student is always called on in a math class. This is an example of [ ]
What is an example of the halo effect?
A teacher's assistant asked to "pet a student's hair" one day during recess. This student had textured hair and felt deeply uncomfortable. This is an example of [ ].
What is a microaggression?
Hispanic student was put into and ELD program without parental consent or or student evaluation. This student is not a native Spanish speaker. This is an example of [ ] bias.
What is perception bias?
Jasmine, Emily, and Jilly's classroom snack choices are...
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