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Impact of Various Factors

emspowel — 2025-07-21 01:24:46 UTC

There are vast factors that can impact a child's development. From religious background, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity, family units/dynamics, to economic status on personal growth, all of these things can impact how a child grows and percieves not only themselves but the environment around them.

This article has a great overview of various factors that impact a child and adolescent as they grow up.

https://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/children-families

Here is a short video explaining different types of parenting and how they might impact a child's perception of themselves and the relationships they have built.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyO8pvpnTdE

This 2019 study shows religious impacts on child development- giving a glimpse of impacts within schools as well:

https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/02/09/how-does-religion-impact-child-development#3

Here is an age chart that maps out sexual development impacts on a child's overall development:

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/80/f7/80f7ae70-4e3b-4e21-9c0a-482d44fd076f/handout_1_eng_child_sexual_development_-_copy.pdf

Implicit Biases and Cultural Competence

emspowel — 2025-07-21 01:25:13 UTC

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), implicit biases include the subconscious feelings, attitudes, prejudices, and stereotypes an individual has developed due to prior influences and imprints throughout their lives. Individuals are unaware that subconscious perceptions, instead of facts and observations, affect their decision-making. An example may be only calling on a student because they have a name that is common for you or easy to pronounce.

Cultural competence — defined as the ability to understand, appreciate and interact with people from cultures or belief systems different from one's own is a trait that is very important in all humans- but especially educators. An example of this might be accomodating lesson plans to meet the needs of different learners.

Here is about a three minute sketch video that emphasizes the effect of implicit biases in education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBZPHE1oPJo

In my own experiences as a future ELL educator, culture is one of the easiest thing to generalize or group, but in reality it is very specific to every individual. Hispanic cultures for example are different in dialect, tradition, food, slang, etc. - but often get easily generalized. This can be hurtful to students, and could even potentially be offensive as many Latin cultures value respect and pride in their unique culture.

Here is a great four-minute-read resource of common implicit biases we might not realize we are falling into using:

https://www.catalyst.org/en-us/insights/2020/interrupt-unconscious-bias

Framework for Developing Cultural Competence

emspowel — 2025-07-21 01:26:30 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsWbODQiDWs

Here is a short video of different individuals who were interviewed on cultural competency. They hit on some great points of why culturally competent people need to be willing to value, develop, adapt and learn about different cultures.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7011228/

This article provides great examples and ways to develop cultural competency. It shows different perspectives and ways to look at growth.

https://researchguides.library.syr.edu/fys101/cultural_compentence

This is a college research library that provides a collage of great resources from TedTalks to infographics. Take time to anaylze these resources because there is rich information in this library.

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/preparing-cultural-diversity-resources-teachers

Here are some great teacher-resources for encouraging classroom competency and overall diversity in education.

Impact of Implicit Bias on Teacher Perceptions

emspowel — 2025-07-21 01:26:43 UTC

When a teacher has implicit biases, it can impact so many aspects of a student's experience in a school. From grades, expectations, discipline, disability, and even access, educators might not realize the impact these biases may have on their students.

This link gives you access to an article explaining an overview of both examples and outcomes of implicit biases in education:

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/resources/newsletters/childrens-rights/how-implicit-bias-impacts-our-children-education/

https://ivytech.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/allstate/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:588655/one

This is a great study through our IvyTech library that offers insight on bias and microaggressions which go hand-in-hand with implicit biases.

https://ivytech.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/allstate/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:588655/one

This article is specifically related to implicit bias within education- offers a lot more specificity for this field.

A hypothetical example of implicit biases that could happen as a teacher is grading your male and female students work differently. You might believe that your female students need extra encouragement or might care more, and grade their papers more attentively and leniantly.