While I was reading the article What Is Anti-Bias Education from the Book Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves by Edwards and Derman-Sparks, I couldn’t stop thinking about myself; because as an immigrant student myself who came to the United States at the age of 11, there were many times that I felt like I didn’t belong here in the United States, there were time that I was afraid to participate in class or even talk in public because I felt like I did not fit in with the rest of the kids. When I first arrived to the USA I went to a public school called IS235 Academy for New Americans, where everything was great I had good grades, I had a lot of friends and I felt like I belong there. Once I was done with 7th grade, I went to a regular middle school where I was placed in a class where all the kids knew English and for most of them English was their first language, which was very different from IS235. …show more content…
But luckily for me for math class we had a Hispanic teacher which was from my same native country (Ecuador), he also had an accent, which made me feel comfortable and little by little I started to speak English and I started to make new friends. Therefore, when I was reading the article What Is Anti-Bias Education I couldn’t agree more with the statement that as educators we have a “unique role in promoting all children’s chances to thrive and to succeed in school, in work and in life”. (Edwards and Derman-Sparks, 2010). I strongly agree with the authors about the importance of Anti-Bias education I do agree that “Anti-bias education is needed among students, specially now that we are living in a world that is not yet a place where everyone is provided with equal opportunities to become all they could