About This Lesson
This lesson is designed to help educators reflect on the choices they make that impact our immigrant-origin students.
As educators, we make over 1,000 decisions a day, we do the best we can, based on what we see, know, and understand about a situation. We often have to make judgments-and to take action- before we have complete information. Beyond having to make decisions with partial information, we see the world through our own experiential lenses and perspectives. Further, we cannot help but be informed by our biases based on our previous experiences and knowledge. Lacking additional contextual knowledge, we use these perceptual shortcuts to inform our classroom decisions.
