Promote Inclusion, Equality and Diversity with Your Current/Future Learners
Explain how you could promote inclusion, equality and diversity with your current/future learners. Identify other points of referral available to meet the potential needs of learners.
Equality is about 'creating a fairer society, where everyone can participate and has the opportunity to fulfil their potential'. It means ensuring those pupils are treated equally in terms of the opportunities they are provided with. This arises from anti discrimination legislation and ensures individuals are not disadvantaged or mistreated because of their religious believe, sexual orientation, age and ethnic background.
Understanding that an individual's gender, race, disability, age, social class, sexuality, religion or belief will impact on their life experiences is the first step to an understanding of the issues raised by the term equality.
Diversity relates to all the things that make us different from one and other. In the context of our approach to equality and diversity it is about recognising and valuing that difference, towards other staff and pupils. In addition acknowledging pupils’ differences in terms of religious believe, age, sex and sexual orientation, ethnic background and possible physical or mental disabilities. As a teacher, he/she needs to use different learning atmospheres to obtain the maximum of pupils’ potential irrespective what their ethnicity and other mentioned factors are.
The two terms are commonly used as a combination word, although they do not mean the same and need to be separated from each other
Ensuring that equality and diversity are encouraged and upheld is important to everyone in various ways because, we all stand to gain if our colleagues that we work with and student that we teach are valued, motivated and treated fairly. In recognising diversity, we are better placed to draw on pupil’s experiences and strengths while valuing and respecting their difference. Our increasingly varied society means that we need to constantly
Equality is about 'creating a fairer society, where everyone can participate and has the opportunity to fulfil their potential'. It means ensuring those pupils are treated equally in terms of the opportunities they are provided with. This arises from anti discrimination legislation and ensures individuals are not disadvantaged or mistreated because of their religious believe, sexual orientation, age and ethnic background.
Understanding that an individual's gender, race, disability, age, social class, sexuality, religion or belief will impact on their life experiences is the first step to an understanding of the issues raised by the term equality.
Diversity relates to all the things that make us different from one and other. In the context of our approach to equality and diversity it is about recognising and valuing that difference, towards other staff and pupils. In addition acknowledging pupils’ differences in terms of religious believe, age, sex and sexual orientation, ethnic background and possible physical or mental disabilities. As a teacher, he/she needs to use different learning atmospheres to obtain the maximum of pupils’ potential irrespective what their ethnicity and other mentioned factors are.
The two terms are commonly used as a combination word, although they do not mean the same and need to be separated from each other
Ensuring that equality and diversity are encouraged and upheld is important to everyone in various ways because, we all stand to gain if our colleagues that we work with and student that we teach are valued, motivated and treated fairly. In recognising diversity, we are better placed to draw on pupil’s experiences and strengths while valuing and respecting their difference. Our increasingly varied society means that we need to constantly