Competency I

Integrate Strategies that Support Diversity and Anti-biased Perspective.

To support diversity and anti-bias perspectives I will promote the four goals in Anti-bias
Education. The first goal is to make sure each child can demonstrate self-awareness, confidence,
family pride, and positive self-identities. To help me achieve goal 1 I will follow the guidelines
for teaching this goal. I will expand my self-concept activities by exploring each child's social
identity, I will acknowledge and support each childs family, and I will fully support each child in
regards to their social identity aspects. The second goal is to make sure each child can express
comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate language for human differences; and deep,
caring human connections. To achieve goal two I will use the guidelines that are implemented in
Anti-bias Education. I will equally explore people's similarities and differences by teaching the
children that we share similar biological attributes and needs and we live these in many different
ways. I will explore the many kinds of diversity among the children in my classroom, and I will
show the children videos of other preschool classes to help add more understanding to diversity.
The third goal is that the children will recognize unfairness, have language to describe
unfairness, and understand the unfairness hurts. I will use the guidelines for teaching goal three. I
will assess children's thinking and feelings about a particular kind of diversity, I will observe and
note comments children make during informal conversations or play. I will plan conversations to
draw out their ideas by using pictures, questions or books to help spark their insights. I will plan
activities to teach children how to contrast inaccurate, untrue images or ideas with accurate ones
and within those activities address building children's capabilities for empathy and fairness. I
will also create critical-thinking activities that paved the way for children's learning

to take action to make unfair things fair. The fourth and final goal is that each child will
demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or
discriminatory actions. I will help each child learn and practice a variety of ways to act when:
another child acts in a bias manner toward him/her, a child acts in a bias manner toward another
child, unfair situations occur in the center/classroom, and unfair situations occur in the children's
immediate community. To achieve goal four I will be alert for unfair practices that directly affect
children's lives. I will engage children in dialogue about their feelings and ideas regarding
specific situations. I will consider the interests and dynamics of my group of children. When
teaching children how to handle being the target of discriminatory behaviors I will incorporate
the familys strategies along with several other ways for children to respond to these
actions. I will plan activities to help children learn to address these problems.
Materials that are free of bias or stereotypes throughout math, science, and social studies.
In the math area most of the materials would not indicate bias or stereotype activities because
they would mostly refer to counting, shapes, sequence, and numbers. I would try to implement
diversity through matching games with a variety of different cultures or counting in various
languages. The science area would mostly consist of science experiments but I could incorporate
cooking activities that involve different recipes from different cultures. I would have the children
do science experiments that involve diversity such as brown and white eggs, the difference in our
skin color and our skeletons. Social Studies is where we can really teach the most about
diversity. I would promote activities that involve each child's family about where they came
from. I would create a map activity and put marks where our parents came from. We would do
activities about community helpers and learn about how important they are. I would be sure to

teach the children about stereotyping and that it is wrong to stereotype people because we are all
individuals that matter and every one of us is equally important.