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1.2 Explain the roles and responsibilities of the early year’s practitioner in supporting equality, diversity and inclusive practice.
As an early years practitioner one of your key role’s is ensuring that you support equality and diversity at all times, both with children and parents, getting to know them individually and in depth will help to ensure you are doing so for their individuals needs and taking their circumstances into account. You have a duty of care to protect the well-being of all the children you care for. It is important that practitioners embed anti discriminatory practice into all your work with and challenge discrimination if and when you see it. Practitioners should ensure they are completing any training given around equality and diversity to ensure they understand what is expected and how to approach different situations they may come across.
As an early year’s practitioner, your roles and responsibilities in supporting equality, diversity and inclusion include:
• Working within the policies and procedures of your setting
• Valuing the individual child
• Developing and sustaining a child-centred approach
• Engaging actively with the family to appreciate the holistic needs of the child
• Providing an inclusive environment which actively welcomes diversity
• Being a positive role model in promoting equality, diversity and inclusive practice
• Recognising discriminatory practice
• Knowing how, why and when to challenge discrimination
• Engaging in effective partnership working to enable the child to thrive
Practitioners should always plan activities to allow all children to take part and be prepared to adapt the activity for children with additional needs. Settings should have a variety of resources for children to play with such as books from different cultures to look at and read, dressing up clothes, dolls that are authentic looking, Play food, either bought or made from play-dough/salt-dough as well as music rhymes and songs. Practitioners should think about their environment and ensure they display diverse decorations; this could be flags or signs with different languages.
It is important to be a positive role model for children and families, showing them you value and respect them, you should do this by showing them and thinking about how you treat others around you, be aware of your own opinions, ensuring you are trying your best to pronounce names correctly, learn about the clothing worn by different cultures and what they are called.
3.2 Analyse the benefits of supporting equality, diversity and inclusive practice.
Under the EYFS, all settings must provide and implement an effective equality of opportunity policy.
From a very young age children can learn to place a value on different races, cultures and disabilities.
The benefits of supporting equality and diversity include:
• Helping young children to develop a sense of belonging- support diversity and inclusive practice to help children start to understand and respect family cultures.
• Welcoming diversity and working with it – Creating an environment that promotes and positively encourages diversity.
• Recognition of our own prejudice – having an awareness of our own bias and prejudice will enable us to act positively to ensure they don’t result in discrimination or bias to others.
3.3 Evaluate the impact of own attitudes, values and behaviour when supporting equality, diversity and inclusive practice.
As humans we all have our own opinions, beliefs and values inbuilt into us over years of life either by what we have heard/seen or experienced, it is important that we help to teach children from a young age to understand their environment, different cultures and beliefs and to teach them to have respect for these differences.
When it comes to children they are influenced by the behaviour they see from their role models and the way we come across, it is very important to be self-aware of how we come across as this will impact on the relationships that we have with the children in our care and the staff around us. It is our duty as adults as well as practitioners to encourage children 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. If we display negative behaviour when talking to or being around people of different beliefs, race or sexual orientation it could have a negative effect on young children and could influence them to behave in the same way.
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Some Help please Unit 2.4 regarding equality, diversity and inclusion
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