How to promote and practise equality and diversity
Embracing equality and diversity with, and for, learners
As a teacher, you should be a positive role model to learners motivating and inspiring them to make the most of their lives, skills and opportunities. It is your professional responsibility to strive to ensure everyone feels valued and respected and to help learners understan the positive impact of an inclusive and forward-thinking culture. Some people experience discrimination because they are perceived to be different as a result of prejudice, stereotyping or oppression. It is your responsibility to highlight the isolating and destructive impact of discrimination and the emotional and mental harm and risk this may cause.
In modelling behaviours that demonstrate your commitment to the promotion of equality and diversity, you help learners understand different views, perspectives and experiences, and develop more positive relationships both within educational establishments and local communities.
Your professional responsibility includes pursuing learning to raise your awareness of issues affecting people with different lived experiences to your own.
Embracing equality and diversity with, and for, colleagues, parents and the community
Your professional practice and conduct should promote inclusion and diversity for all and not discriminate against, or cause harassment to anyone you work with, be it learners, parents, colleagues or other stakeholders within our communities. You should take all matters of discrimination or harassment seriously and ask for advice on how to address these. You should seek to build relationships with people who may be discriminated against to ensure you are effectively supporting them.
All partners should be welcomed and included as part of your learning community, which is free from discrimination and harassment, where everyone values the contributions of all, and is set within an inclusive culture and ethos. This should be demonstrated by responding to the needs, experiences and views of all, including those with protected characteristics and additional support needs. Positively embracing equality and diversity means ensuring different views and opinions are present in the classroom, school and beyond, and not solely from the mainstream group, making sure voices from different perspectives are heard and valued
Bias
There are varying definitions of bias: conscious/explicit, unconscious/implicit. Teachers should undertake further professional learning around bias, in all its definitions, to support understanding as to how bias can impact on your actions and decisions and cause discrimination. For example, the impact on bias and behaviour when high-profile issues are covered in the media. A greater understanding of bias will, in turn, increase your ability to open discussions and sensitively, and knowledgeably, challenge bias and discrimination.
However subtle an incident, by addressing the root cause of bias or discrimination (as opposed to shutting down or silencing discussions around incidents) you demonstrate the seriousness of the situation.
Acting against discrimination, harassment and victimisation
Discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying of any kind should not be tolerated. If met with silence, this can send a harmful message that discriminatory behaviour is acceptable, that some voices are valued above others, enabling discrimination to grow. It may also have a long term and detrimental impact on the individual or group experiencing this negative behaviour, one which may continue long after the situation is resolved. You can make a positive difference by talking with colleagues, speaking out and addressing uncomfortable and problematic behaviour. You should be familiar with the policies in place on equality and diversity, anti-bullying, discrimination, inequalities and whistleblowing (or equivalents), and ensure you act on this advice. Equally, you should know where and how to access support and protection for yourself or others. This could be from colleagues, your local authority, or the wider education community including professional associations.
As a teacher, you must be an upstander and speak up against any type of discrimination, harassment or victimisation, being mindful of your personal safety. You should be proactive in ensuring that complaints are followed up. The message should be very clear that these socially unacceptable, and often illegal behaviours, are not tolerated and that the teaching profession will not stand by and accept or be part of them but actively challenge them and seek to change these attitudes.
Embracing equality and diversity with, and for, learners
As a teacher, you should be a positive role model to learners motivating and inspiring them to make the most of their lives, skills and opportunities. It is your professional responsibility to strive to ensure everyone feels valued and respected and to help learners understan the positive impact of an inclusive and forward-thinking culture. Some people experience discrimination because they are perceived to be different as a result of prejudice, stereotyping or oppression. It is your responsibility to highlight the isolating and destructive impact of discrimination and the emotional and mental harm and risk this may cause.
In modelling behaviours that demonstrate your commitment to the promotion of equality and diversity, you help learners understand different views, perspectives and experiences, and develop more positive relationships both within educational establishments and local communities.
Your professional responsibility includes pursuing learning to raise your awareness of issues affecting people with different lived experiences to your own.
Embracing equality and diversity with, and for, colleagues, parents and the community
Your professional practice and conduct should promote inclusion and diversity for all and not discriminate against, or cause harassment to anyone you work with, be it learners, parents, colleagues or other stakeholders within our communities. You should take all matters of discrimination or harassment seriously and ask for advice on how to address these. You should seek to build relationships with people who may be discriminated against to ensure you are effectively supporting them.
All partners should be welcomed and included as part of your learning community, which is free from discrimination and harassment, where everyone values the contributions of all, and is set within an inclusive culture and ethos. This should be demonstrated by responding to the needs, experiences and views of all, including those with protected characteristics and additional support needs. Positively embracing equality and diversity means ensuring different views and opinions are present in the classroom, school and beyond, and not solely from the mainstream group, making sure voices from different perspectives are heard and valued
Bias
There are varying definitions of bias: conscious/explicit, unconscious/implicit. Teachers should undertake further professional learning around bias, in all its definitions, to support understanding as to how bias can impact on your actions and decisions and cause discrimination. For example, the impact on bias and behaviour when high-profile issues are covered in the media. A greater understanding of bias will, in turn, increase your ability to open discussions and sensitively, and knowledgeably, challenge bias and discrimination.
However subtle an incident, by addressing the root cause of bias or discrimination (as opposed to shutting down or silencing discussions around incidents) you demonstrate the seriousness of the situation.
Acting against discrimination, harassment and victimisation
Discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying of any kind should not be tolerated. If met with silence, this can send a harmful message that discriminatory behaviour is acceptable, that some voices are valued above others, enabling discrimination to grow. It may also have a long term and detrimental impact on the individual or group experiencing this negative behaviour, one which may continue long after the situation is resolved. You can make a positive difference by talking with colleagues, speaking out and addressing uncomfortable and problematic behaviour. You should be familiar with the policies in place on equality and diversity, anti-bullying, discrimination, inequalities and whistleblowing (or equivalents), and ensure you act on this advice. Equally, you should know where and how to access support and protection for yourself or others. This could be from colleagues, your local authority, or the wider education community including professional associations.
As a teacher, you must be an upstander and speak up against any type of discrimination, harassment or victimisation, being mindful of your personal safety. You should be proactive in ensuring that complaints are followed up. The message should be very clear that these socially unacceptable, and often illegal behaviours, are not tolerated and that the teaching profession will not stand by and accept or be part of them but actively challenge them and seek to change these attitudes.
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