Questioning Your Own Biases
Reflect on their own assumptions and biases — recognising that everyone carries unconscious assumptions about others, and that actively questioning these assumptions is an ongoing practice that leads to greater fairness and empathy
Lesson
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“Questioning Your Own Biases means noticing personal assumptions/biases and questioning them as an ongoing fairness practice. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.”
Bring to the table
- Assumption pause card
- Fairness/empathy outcome card
Extra for the adult
Worked example. “I assumed they would not like the game” can be questioned: “Did I ask?” Questioning assumptions supports fairness and empathy.
Optional challenge. For Questioning Your Own Biases, add fairness/empathy as the why.
What to notice. Keep one parent note: assumption questioned; support used. This session samples bias awareness, not mastery of social psychology.
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Questioning Your Own Biases means noticing personal assumptions/biases and questioning them as an ongoing fairness practice. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes pausing one assumption and reframing it, then checking one fresh pause.
Separate an observation from an assumption and choose a fair way to check an interpretation.
Separate an observation from an assumption and choose a fair way to check an interpretation.
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Choose bias-questioning habits.
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Peer Pressure
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Peer Pressure supports Questioning Your Own Biases. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Check understanding
- Describe a time they made an assumption about someone that turned out to be wrong
- Explain what unconscious bias means in simple terms
- Describe a strategy for checking their own assumptions, such as asking questions before judging
“Can your child catch themselves making an assumption about someone — like assuming a quiet child is unfriendly — and then question whether that assumption is fair?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Meta
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Empathy & Social Awareness
- Age range
- Ages 9–12
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