Unit 204 Equality and Diversity

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Unit 204 assignment 2. Equality, diversity and inclusion in work with children and young people. In this assignment I am going to talk about 4 different topics and how my attitude can contribute towards these: * How my attitude and behaviour can impact on my work with children and young people. * Explain the importance of promoting an anti-discriminatory practice in the working with children and young people. * How I would challenge discrimination. * Give a description of what is meant by inclusion and inclusive practise. It is important as a teaching assistant that I have a positive and non-judgemental attitude towards everyone that I come in contact with from adults to children. All of us have attitudes and values inbuilt into us formed over many years of life and up until such a time as we start to work with children or in other similar walks of life it isn’t always necessary to be too aware of them. The people that most of us deal with on a day-to-day basis will have as many-inbuilt attitudes and values as ourselves. When it comes to children they are influenced by our behaviour and the way we come across. It is now that we need to be much more self-aware of how we do come across as this will impact on the relationships that we have with the children in our care and the staff around us. If we display negative behaviour and a negative way of dealing with certain people or incidents involving others of perhaps a different race or religion then we unwittingly influence other younger children to behave in the same way. It is our duty to encourage pupils to respect and accept others and the only way to do this is to examine our own beliefs and attitudes and learn not to make judgments on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity or religion. It is important to apply an anti-discriminatory practice, it is all about ensuring you refrain from

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