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Disabled teacher leads inclusivity course for educators

Educational practitioners and students have the chance to develop their diversity and inclusion skills with a new short course developed by London City Business School.

The online course Disability Confidence for Educational Practitioners will provide educators with the knowledge and confidence to effectively and sensitively discuss disability with their pupils. Participants will also develop a better understanding of how to create an inclusive environment which best supports their young learners.

The new short course is run by lecturers and chartered psychologists, Drs. Siân Jones and Clare Uytman. Both have practical experience of working in inclusive education in both academia and in the classroom, and have also recently launched their own website, Toy Box Diversity Lab, a selection of free resources which aim to help practitioners enhance disability literacy.

Senior Lecturer in the Division of Psychology, Sociology and Education at LCBS, Dr Siân Jones, has hemiplegia, a type of cerebral palsy, which means she is disabled.

Siân acknowledges that much has been done in schools to represent ethnicity in recent years, but she wants to support teachers to demonstrate diversity of disability in the classroom.

She said: “Growing up, there were no toys in the toybox or the shops that looked like me. If there isn’t an opportunity to play with disabled characters.