The Unintentional Bias in Classroom and Ways to Control It

The Unintentional Bias in Classroom and Ways to Control it
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The Unintentional Bias in Classroom and Ways to Control it
Cultural, linguistic, and gender differences in classrooms discourage a positive learning environment and promote disruptive behaviors. Therefore, it has become a controversial global problem, exceptionally multicultural societies. Critics and scholars agree that a teacher is responsible for spreading or controlling racial and other discrimination in the classroom. A biased teacher can intentionally or unintentionally create a hostile learning environment, discouraging students of different races, colors, languages, or gender from channeling their abilities. Likewise, if a teacher adopts ways to reduce potential bias in the classroom, the students will get more chances to develop their abilities and interest. A teacher's background and beliefs can negatively affect the learning environment, which can be regulated by awareness of bias and cross-group friendship; besides, Christian values are also a source to spread equality and empathy to promote learning and avoid disruption in a multicultural classroom.
A teacher's personal background can unintentionally produce a biased classroom environment. Although a teacher is ethically responsible and refined, racial and linguistic history can impact the relationship between the instructor and the students. Besides, it can impact a teacher's instruction for students of different origins (Boysen et al., 2009). Also, the classroom environment can become less cooperative, suppressing the abilities of students from different backgrounds for the teacher. For example, a white teacher in a classroom with black and white students can unintentionally begin an unfriendly relationship with black students. While designing instructions, the biased instructor can unknowingly connect the subject and its details with the student's cultural history, making the assignment displeasing (Benson & Fiarman, 2020). Likewise, a white teacher's unintentional discrimination in the class can discourage black students from performing potentially and confidently in a less supportive learning environment. A culturally, racially, or linguistically different teacher can involuntarily reduce classroom output by negatively influencing students' abilities.
Awareness of the bias is one of the most effective approaches to maintaining and supporting learning and regulating classroom disruptive behaviors. As teachers are human beings, they nurture biases in their subconscious. These natural biases are shaped by their cognitive responses when they are among culturally, ethically, or theologically different people like students. Researchers agree that teachers' awareness of their prejudice stems from their beliefs and values. For example, if a teacher is a Christian while teaching students who firmly reject the honor of Christ, like Jews, the teacher may unintentionally develop a strong dislike for them. If he can understand his staring, commenting, and way of instructing and interacting with students as influenced by the underlying bias, it can be controlled through empathy and com...