A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Teacher Training provides teachers and administrators with the knowledge, awareness, and skills to respond to prejudice and discrimination. Focusing on bias, identity-based bullying, and intergroup conflict, facilitated discussion of anti-bias education also enables teachers to help students address bias and prejudice in their school community. Throughout this interactive session, Personal and Cultural Identity activities help participants explore the ways they identify themselves and how their personal and cultural identities shape their thoughts, attitudes and perceptions of others. Understanding the Language of Bias includes activities that assist participants in establishing a common language for discussing issues associated with bias. Examining Bias activities assist in developing participants’ capacity to recognize and acknowledge prejudice and discrimination in themselves, in others and within institutions. Assessment activities involve participants in a process of examining personal attitudes and behaviors and organizational policies and practices for bias and inequity.
