QR Chapter 2

Audra Whitney
Chapter 2
"Even the suspicion that a teacher holds a bias sometimes grows into students feeling that they can't do anything right." (22)
Having just taken a child and adolescent psychology course and been told about learned helplessness, I found this statement particularly interesting. I think that bias in the classroom is a huge problem but that it is also an unnecessary one. This being said, I can imagine that it is hard as a teacher to not show positive or negative bias toward certain students. I think this is something that many new teachers will struggle with.