Self Examination - Are you guilty of prejudging?

The following exercise (Tauber, 1997) can help you to gauge your predisposition towards potential students. How do you think the following students will perform in your classroom?:

• a teenager from a family that has strong and vocal Democratic (or Republican) Party ties;
• a significantly overweight teenage girl;
• a primary school student from an affluent family who is an only child;
• a middle school student whose two older siblings you had in class several years ago--each of whom was often a troublemaker;
• an Asian boy who is the son of a respected university math professor;
• a teenage boy who is thin, almost frail, and very uncoordinated for his age.