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Teaching

Teaching Activity 1

Roles and Responsibilities

Outline your role as a trainer and explain why each of these are important
as an educator.

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Administration 2

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Promoting Equality and Valuing Diversity

What is equality?

Equality is about the rights of learners to have access to, attend, and
Lesson Plans regardless of their circumstances. Inequality
participate in their chosen learning experience, this should be

and discrimination should be tackled to ensure fairness, decency and
respect amongst all learners. In the past, equality has often been
described as everyone being the same or having the same
opportunities. Now, it can be described as everyone being different,
but having equal rights. Equality of opportunity is a concept
underpinned by legislation.

Equality Act (2010)

The Equality Act (2010) replaced all previous anti-discrimination legislation and consolidated it into
one act for England, Scotland and Wales (there are separate requirements in Northern Ireland).
The Act provides rights for people not to be directly discriminated against or harassed because
Handouts they have an association with a disabled person, nor must people be directly discriminated against

or harassed because they are wrongly perceived as disabled.

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