Starting Small: Teaching Children Tolerance

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The vision of community that the early childhood classroom provides can color children’s expectations about equity, cooperation and citizenship for a lifetime. Chronicles seven innovative classrooms in which teachers are helping children practice fairness, respect and tolerance.

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Runtime: 58 minutes 24 seconds

Topic: Counseling and Self-Help, Education, Home and Family
Subtopic: Child Development, General Education, Interpersonal Relations, Teacher Training
Grade/Interest Level: PT/TT -
Release Year: 1997
Producer/Distributor: Southern Poverty Law Center

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Group of children seated cross-legged on the floor, looking in the same direction. Caption. And continue to make literacy important to us.

Closeup of a child drawing with marker on a sheet of paper. Caption. Giving outlets for expressing their feelings.

Child smiles and looks out in a classroom setting. Caption. Narrator. Rapid physical growth marks this stage of development.

Crowd of African people stand in a corridor between 2 dilapidated buildings. Caption. Narrator. With state primary schools now free.

Young girl talks to a man on the sidewalk of a busy urban street. Behind them, teenagers in the bed of a truck and buildings with Thai writing. Caption. In Chiang Mai, Sita is playing Songkran with the grown-ups.

Group of women and babies sit outside on picnic blankets in a park setting. The woman in the foreground dangles a colorful rattle from a ribbon as the baby next to her reaches for it. Caption. So you can see that she wants to grab the rattle.

Woman is signing in front of a red screen with the word, brave, written in white next to her.

Orange text in a playful font on a purple background reads, "How to Catch a Turkey." Turkey is in pale yellow letters with a dark orange outline. Illustrations of a cupcake and carrot are visible in the blurred background.

Woman signs in front of a storybook illustration of scruffy dog licking a boy while other animals look on. Story text appears on screen.

Woman leans over to help a child adjust a magnifying glass. Another woman and child stand by. Spanish caption. Una de las cosas más importantes.

Viewer Comments

ADRIENNE B. (New York, NY)

February 17th, 2021 at 08:10 AM

Great video to show techniques on creating an anti-bias preschool classroom.
Patti G. (Battle Ground, WA)

February 27th, 2019 at 11:31 AM

Great content

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