This online webinar was eye opening to me. Throughout the webinar they talked about the implication of implicit bias. Implicit bias is when there are stereotypes against groups of people that are in our heads even though we don't want them to be. Most times its the attitudes or even voices that we hear in our heads that irritate us. They gave us different experiences that teachers have encountered within their classrooms to help us understand how easy it is to be bias and stereotypical. They first showed us a picture of three students in a imaginary classroom. They then gave us three different scenarios, the first was which one of the three students was a new immigrant student? The second one was which one of the three students would cause trouble in class? The third one was which one of the three students would know more about rap music? It's astonishing to see how easy it is for the teachers and even classmates to be bias or labeled so quickly. An example they used in the webinar was a teacher asking a student to tutor another classmate because they heard that specific race were all intelligent. This is very bias and very stereotypical because everyone is different and unique in their own way. Overall, the main goal of the entire webinar was for teachers and future teachers to understand the importance of equal education no matter the students race, age, gender, etc. Sometimes to be the best teacher we can be, we have to confront things within ourselves that we aren't comfortable about.
