I'm a 24 year veteran teacher who teaches Child and Adolescent Development, Early Childhood Education, and Psychology of Relationships.
I have been teaching relationship skills and biases to students, parents and teachers for many years.
My classes have always been full of kids wanting to learn as I make my classes and presentations engaging and entertaining at the same time. The Professional Development on Relationship Skills and Class Management will include many of the following topics
How biases affect how we relate to each other and our students
Understanding being able to overcome our biases will help us to become better teachers and human beings
Understanding the hidden things that get in the way of being to relate to each other
Check out many of my YouTube videos to get a taste of my teaching style on this topic:
No one lives in reality, our brain creates distortions without our knowledge and without our consent
Confirmation bias is one of the strongest forces for shaping the way we think and creates some pretty huge distortions between what our brain thinks is reality and actual reality
Our brain hides our biases from ourself. No reason to cook the books to make you feel good about yourself and then reveal you are cooking the books.
When two things are shown over and over together the brain creates a connection, if this has to do with groups of people it can become a stereotype
We have a tendency to see people in our group as better than they are and people in groups we dislike as worse than they are. This causes all kinds of societal problems.
Everyone knows there are two sides to every story. What is it that creates that and why can no one actually see reality as it is.
Or you can email me at jeff@jeffbrownsclassroom.com