How can schools cater for diversity?

Schools have a vital role in building understanding of diversity and inclusion for pupils and staff. This course provides overviews of legislation around discrimination, focusing on The Equality Act (2010) and the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), and offers practical tips on building an inclusive culture in schools.

Employing an EDI lens, this course is ideal for school teachers and leaders seeking to increase understanding of inclusivity and its impact on school communities.

Benefits of this course:

• Identifying the issues, challenges and opportunities around diversity
• Clarifying key terminology used around diversity, equality and inclusion
• To explore how to celebrate diversity and how to see issues from different perspectives
• To identify some practical steps and strategies for creating a more inclusive classroom and differentiated teaching, learning and assessment.

COURSE OUTLINE:

The Inclusive Classroom: Setting the Scene

• What do we mean by the terms diversity, equality and inclusion?
• What are the relevant legal frameworks?
• Creating the right conditions - doing the preparation
• Identifying issues, challenges and opportunities within our teaching context both at school level and for individual teachers.
• Case Study exploration.

Creating an Inclusive Classroom

• Understanding different models of inclusive learning
• Identifying areas of focus when considering inclusivity (rules, activity, people, power)
• Whose curriculum is it anyway? Potential tensions explored in relation to different stakeholders.

Inclusive Teaching and Learning

• Applying understanding of equity, equality and adaption to classroom practice
• Identifying some practical inclusive teaching strategies in relation to sample protected characteristics
• Identifying development priorities.

This course is suitable for primary and secondary teachers and leaders.

Presenter Profile

Dr Jo Trevenna has over 20 years' experience of educational leadership from early years to post-graduate level. Her ongoing academic interests centre on Leadership and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Cost: £150 per delegate

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