TLS 04_2 Asynchronus assignment

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Tatum Orzel TLS 320 04/02/24 Asynchronous Assignment a. Question 1 : How do the ideas presented in the film connect to what you know about anti-bias education? At the beginning of the documentary, there was a clip where each student drew a self-portrait of themselves and they discussed their differences and similarities. This is something that I really enjoyed seeing. So often in education, you see educators ignoring the differences that children have and consider that anti-bias education but I think that is so damaging to the child in the future. From what I have been taught by my mentor teacher at my job right now talking about and celebrating each child's differences is so important at a young age so when they are older they understand that yes they may look, or think, or have grown up differently than their friends but those differences are exactly what makes that child perfect in their own way. Later in the video, they talked about how all of the students were very interested in one of their peer's dads being in a wheelchair so they brought in someone in a wheelchair to come talk to the children. These are the kinds of things that are essential in an anti-bias classroom so that a child knows that everyone is equal and you don't treat someone differently just because they may differ from you in some ways. b. Question 2: What new ideas did you get that extended or broadened your thinking? One idea I got from this video that broadened my thinking is how much children do
actually understand. I have always planned on incorporating these ideas into my lessons when I begin teaching my own class but I have questioned how much of it children would be able to grasp. But hearing the children in this video talk about everything they have learned and openly express that they understand and appreciate everyone's differences proves that I was very wrong about that. Children are more capable of understanding this stuff than many people give them credit for but we will never see that if we don’t give them the chance. c. Question 3: What challenges or puzzles have come to mind for you? One of the challenges that I thought about throughout this video was the issue of parents disagreeing with their children being taught certain things at such a young age. In one part of the video, the teacher brought up the concept of having two moms or two dads. A few of the kids said that someone couldn't have two moms or two dads and another child was very upset because he does. That is why it is so important to teach this at a young age so that they don't see it as different in the future. But there are many parents who would be very upset about concepts like this being taught. I can imagine this causing conflict in the future and putting me as an educator in a hard position. You are going to have some parents excited that this is being taught because they don't want their child to be treated differently or they don't want their child ever treating another differently because of things like this. But there will always be people in the world who don't believe that differences like this should be celebrated and don't want their child to learn about it.
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