How to Ensure School activities are GESI Responsive as Teachers and Heads
How to Ensure School Activities Are GESI Responsive as Teachers and Heads
As Teachers / Heads ensure
1) school cleaning and chores do not reflect or reinforce traditional gender roles. (e.g., only female students run
errands or clean up. Roles and responsibilities are a shared effort (where strengths and weaknesses are
compensated for) and domestic chores are fairly distributed.
2) females and males have equal opportunities to be both prefects and assistant prefects.
3) females and males have equal access and opportunities to extra-curricular activities.
4) a Guidance Counsellor is in place to provide support and a safe space for all students.
5) a GESI club is organized to discuss the process of equity to reach the goal of equality where everyone can reach their highest potential in school and the world of work. helps females and males feel confident to challenge traditional gender roles in society.
6) all forms of corporal punishment are banned, and staff are given training in alternative classroom management
techniques.
7) teachers/SMC sensitize parents and the community about the need to support education for all, especially girls
education
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