Cambridge Personal Development Centre, Foster Road, Trumpington, Cambridge, CB2 9NL
PLEASE NOTE THIS COURSE HAS BEEN POSTPONED. NEW DATES TBA.
This introductory course on tutoring methods is aimed primarily at branch activists who want to use education methods to run organising-focused branch-based training for members.
You will need to complete both this course and the UNISON ‘Equalities for Tutors’ course to become a UNISON lay tutor.
Learning outcomes
On completing this course you will understand:
- Teaching and learning approaches appropriate for trade union education.
- How to run a simple group-based activity.
- How equality and diversity issues relate to learners’ needs in an educational setting.
- How learners benefit from a group learning process.
- How tutoring knowledge and skills can engage branch activists around union organising.
- How to develop their tutoring skills and knowledge.
Reflecting on what you learn from each activity of this course as you work through it is a valuable way of reinforcing your learning and a Learning Journal is provided to record your thoughts and ideas.
The equality awareness module
This course has been specifically designed for UNISON lay tutors and is an integral and essential part of the UNISON lay tutor training programme.
It is important for all UNISON tutors to have a common understanding of how discrimination and oppression operate in society and within ourselves in order to challenge it effectively through our practice. Therefore, all UNISON lay tutors will be required to undertake this training at Stage 1 of the lay tutor training scheme.
UNISON lay tutors have an important role to play in promoting UNISON’s equality objectives through incorporating an equality perspective into courses (both content and delivery) and in their practice and behaviour as a tutor. Tutors may find themselves dealing with harassment and discrimination that arise when they are running courses. This course will help tutors to do their job as a lay tutor and to deal with these situations effectively and confidently by developing their understanding of equality issues.
Trade union education should play a key role in changing culture and attitudes and challenging oppression. This course will enable lay tutors to improve their own practice and to play their role in the process of making change by providing them with an opportunity to reflect on their own equalities practice and behaviour.
The purpose of this course is to help lay tutors to improve their own education practice by:-
- Building confidence
- Dealing with equality issues assertively
- Developing their understanding of equality issues.
Understanding the deep-rooted nature of prejudice and discrimination will help all lay tutors to carry out their role on behalf of UNISON confidently and effectively.
Module dates
Module 1: 20, 21 April 2016
Module 2: 9, 10 June 2016
Module 3: 11, 12, 13 July 2016
All three modules are compulsory