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What is meant by equal opportunities? How does the teacher cater for this in the classroom?
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What is meant by equal opportunities? How does the teacher cater for this in the classroom? The following pages will explain what the term 'equal opportunities' means and put forward some ideas as to how a good teacher can ensure he/she is practicing equality around the classroom by taking into consideration the sex, race, gender and special educational needs of their children. The National Union of Teachers believes that equal opportunities 'describes policies and practices which provide equal access and rights and seek to remove discrimination against people on the basis of sex, race, class, sexual orientation or disability.'(NUT) In short, equal opportunities are to treat all children equally based on their individual needs. No child should be subject to disadvantage and the Equal Rights legislation tries to ensure this. However, children are born with stereotypes and from an early age they are influenced by examples of sexist, racist and disablist attitudes, behaviour,...
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