Design, Planning and Delivery of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning

This guide has been developed as a practical toolkit to help practitioners improve their practice and meet their legal and professional obligations by designing, planning and delivering teaching, learning and assessment activities that engage learners.

It will prepare them for external assessment and also promote equality, support diversity and tackle discrimination, victimisation, harassment, stereotyping and bullying.

The information in the guide is supplemented by a range of activities to help you test your understanding and apply your learning to the classroom, tutorial or induction process.

Many of the activities will kick start the preliminary thinking, planning and awareness raising processes you will need to embed equality and diversity into your area of work.

Aims of this resource

• explain your legal and professional obligations to promote equality, tackle discrimination and foster good relations as set out in the Equality Act 2010 and by Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework for Further Education and Skills and its accompanying guidance
• help you to prepare yourself for the task
• offer practical advice on designing your programme and planning and delivering sessions that engage and are accessible to all learners
• show you how you can evidence your work on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in your scheme of work (SoW) and lesson planning documentation
• suggest simple strategies for supporting equality and diversity in everyday situations
• help you to create accessible learning materials and physical environments.
• offer practical advice on dealing with challenging situations in an effective way

Contents

• Why is equality and diversity important?
• What we are required to do
• The challenge
• Inclusive teaching and learning
• What do we mean by inclusive teaching and learning?
• Preparing yourself for inclusive teaching and learning
• Designing your programme
• Planning your sessions
• Delivering your sessions
• Evidencing your EDI
• Measuring the impact of your EDI activities
• How can you use your SoW and lesson plans to evidence EDI?
• Examples of schemes of work that embed EDI
• Tips for integrating EDI into your SoW and lesson plan documentation
• Being more inclusive in what you say
• The problems with language
• Issues with language
• Being more inclusive in what you do
• Showing respect for diversity
• Everyday good practice
• Practical tips for creating accessible learning materials
• Tips for improving the readability of your materials
• Tips for using PowerPoint and interactive whiteboards
• Tips for producing accessible handouts
• Practical tips for creating accessible physical environments
• Practical tips for challenging discriminatory behaviour

Activities

• The consequences of NOT embedding EDI in teaching and learning
• Make sure you are not fuelling inequality in your subject area
• Know your learners
• Seek out opportunities for incorporating EDI
• Where are you now?
• Building EDI into a scheme of work
• Raising your equality and diversity awareness
• Make written materials accessible
• Challenging in a non-confrontational way