This was an interesting webinar. It's a little under an hour long. It talked about the implicit biases people have in their classroom. Regardless if people are actively aware or not, everyone has biases. The webinar basically talked about how to confront those in the classroom. To be an effective teacher in the classroom who aims to diminish stereotypes in their classroom, the teacher must first confront his or her biases. You cannot walk into a classroom with preconceived notions about your students or particular groups of people. Teaching students not to hate each other for their differences is hard enough, but to have to teach those things while actually believing in them is even harder because if you cannot convince yourself to embrace those differences, why would anyone else let you convince them? The webinar just kind of identified different biases that exist in our world, and how it will be a long process to fight against them but it is worth the fight.
