Understanding One's Personal Forms of Bias

The process of individual introspection required both to understand one’s own forms of implicit or unconscious bias and to create inclusive environments

The Graduate School, the Office for Equity and Accessibility, and Virginia Tech all offer resources, programs, and a variety of avenues of redress and information regarding our shared responsibilities as members of the Virginia Tech Community, facilitating students' ability to meet requirement three:

• School of Education students engage in analysis of case studies, reflective activities, and internships that provide opportunities for them to reflect on forms of implicit and unconscious bias as they plan to create inclusive classroom and school environments.
• Coursework across programs (Counselor Education, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Curriculum and Instruction, Career and Technical Education, and Higher Education) require introspective analysis of bias and its impact on the way we teach, counsel, or lead in inclusive education environments.
• One goal of the School of Education is to examine the core courses students are required to take as part of a degree in Curriculum and Instruction to highlight the expertise of our faculty and address the needs of our students to better prepare our candidates to create and thrive in inclusive environments once they graduate from our programs.