Tolerance

Teaching tolerance in the class room is the first step to bringing more tolerance into our world. Children are taught prejudices and most of that stems from not understanding others. By teaching them to embrace and except others differences we can teach empathy and understanding. We are more than colors and cultures. These things help us know and understand each other, but they are not ALL that we are. We have similarities as well as differences and in learning about others we also learn about ourselves. There is an awesome website that has a bunch of ideas and tools to help educators teach tolerance in the class room. Ironically enough it is called Teaching Tolerance and is at www.tolerance.org, simple enough to remember right. Between the tolerance video and the website I feel that I have learned more than a few ideas that I will use in my own classroom.