Promoting Inclusion Equality And Diversity
Level 3 Award in Education & Training
Assignment No1: Explain how you would go about the task of promoting inclusion, equality and diversity faced by a new group of learners enrolled for the first class of your specialist subject, as well as summarising ways to establish ground rules with them.
Firstly we need to understand the difference between equality & diversity which is well covered by Gravells reference:
Equality refers to the learners’ rights to attend and participate regardless of their differences, while diversity refers to valuing the learners’ differences (Gravells, 2008).
Learners not only come from different cultures and backgrounds but they also differ in their abilities, needs, and the way they learn. Their differences …show more content…
The benefit of this option is that they feel through suggestion, rejection, agreement they have made they rules, they own them, respect them, are responsible for upholding them individually and collectively and to a certain extant enforcing them.
It could be beneficial to keep the agreed ground rules visible / displayed in the form of flip chart to reinforce behaviour expectation especially around any Health & safety aspects and a reminder of their ownership and responsibility.
Some ground rules cannot be negotiated, a typical example would be around Health & Safety if part of the teaching involves an environment where protective clothing / equipment is required ie a laboratory where a lab coat & glasses are required or a workshop where safety footwear / glasses and hair protection are essential.
In this instance if not negotiated through the group, then the teacher should suggest if there were to be” any rules around health & safety” in the lab / workshop and use the opportunity to define the required rules for the particular
Assignment No1: Explain how you would go about the task of promoting inclusion, equality and diversity faced by a new group of learners enrolled for the first class of your specialist subject, as well as summarising ways to establish ground rules with them.
Firstly we need to understand the difference between equality & diversity which is well covered by Gravells reference:
Equality refers to the learners’ rights to attend and participate regardless of their differences, while diversity refers to valuing the learners’ differences (Gravells, 2008).
Learners not only come from different cultures and backgrounds but they also differ in their abilities, needs, and the way they learn. Their differences …show more content…
The benefit of this option is that they feel through suggestion, rejection, agreement they have made they rules, they own them, respect them, are responsible for upholding them individually and collectively and to a certain extant enforcing them.
It could be beneficial to keep the agreed ground rules visible / displayed in the form of flip chart to reinforce behaviour expectation especially around any Health & safety aspects and a reminder of their ownership and responsibility.
Some ground rules cannot be negotiated, a typical example would be around Health & Safety if part of the teaching involves an environment where protective clothing / equipment is required ie a laboratory where a lab coat & glasses are required or a workshop where safety footwear / glasses and hair protection are essential.
In this instance if not negotiated through the group, then the teacher should suggest if there were to be” any rules around health & safety” in the lab / workshop and use the opportunity to define the required rules for the particular