Thanks Stella,
I’d welcome anything you may have on religious tolerance. I’ve been working with Muslim learners for over a year now at a Muslim community centre and you wouldn’t believe the amount of prejudice they had against Christians. Basically, when I first met my classes last year, Christian was synonyms with British (the drinking, smoking, disrespectful and racist ones). Of course this has since been demystified.
Fatima Reszczynski
Hi
I wholly agree with Mel. A large number of ESOL staff from my department attended this event and as result we have included the following as a teaching and learning priority within our ESOL department:
· Promoting tolerance in the community (LGBT issues, Religious tolerance, etc)
Furthermore the new Ofsted CIF recognises the importance of ensuring that none of our LGBT learners are disadvantaged in any way. As Mel rightly states our somewhat outdated ESOL Skills for Life Curriculum fails to give our learners a realistic picture of the world outside of the classroom, we would be negligent towards our learners if we did not address this.
I will be happy to share any teaching materials that we produce on this subject.
Kind regards
Stella
Stella McManus
Head of Languages and International
Barnet & Southgate College
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From: ESOL-Research discussion forum and message board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cooke, Melanie
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Melanie Cooke
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I agree very much with Janet on this issue – I think LGBT issues are as relevant as any of the other cultural, political, religious issues which are seen to be important (and which are included in the Citizenship materials!). Equality and Diversity are part of the CIF and that includes how we portray families etc. Just as it is not appropriate to assume that all families we may show to ESOL learners are white and Christian, so it should not be appropriate to exclude whole sections of society which some teachers and learners may feel uncomfortable addressing. Any attempt to address this in a positive, supportive way, seems to me to be something to welcome.
Diana Tremayne
E2 ESOL Course Leader / Advanced Learning Practitioner
Calderdale College
Francis Street
Halifax
HX1 3UZ
Tel: 01422 357357 ext 9403
From: ESOL-Research discussion forum and message board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Isserlis, Janet
Sent: 13 November 2012 16:09
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Subject: Re: NATECLA LGBT Support group for London
Sheila and all,
With respect, many of our colleagues and students - many of us - have experienced challenges, discrimination and worse because of sexual orientation. Understanding its impact on our lives - as educators, as learners, as workers - has huge relevance to our work in adult language and literacy learning and instruction.
Janet Isserlis
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Sheila Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I do not see any relevance whatever for ESOL in particular or any other subject. Where does this LGBT nonsense come into teaching - why waste money on this 'research'? Money which should be spent in educating immigrants and asylum speakers in English. I'm sure I'm not the only person with this view. How did you measurethe success rate of your 'conference'?
Sheila
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:28:17 +0000
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Subject: NATECLA LGBT Support group for London
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Dear all,
Following our successful LGBT ESOL conference, I have decided to set up a NATECLA LGBT support group for ESOL practitioners.
Since the conference I have received numerous emails from teachers who either feel isolated within their institutions, teachers being bullied by students and are not getting support from their institutions or college needing training on the issue.
The purpose of the group is initially
- to offer support tutors particularly hourly paid staff who feel more at risk should they want to raise the issue
- continue designing / sourcing teaching resources to support the integration of LGBT themes in ESOL
- offer training and support to organisations
The group will initially meet in London once a month and the first meeting will be on Saturday 1st December at 10.30 place to be confirmed - but it will be in London
Please feel free to contact me should you want to disuss this more -
Thank you
Laila El-Metoui
NATECLA London Chair (volunteer)
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