Supporting Gender Diverse People in Post 16 Education
GIRES trans and gender diversity awareness training for learning providers, staff and students in post 16 education e-learning resource has been developed to raise awareness and understanding of the issues faced by trans and gender diverse learners and teachers and other staff, and provide the leaner with the information to respond appropriately when working or studying with trans and gender diverse learners and teachers and other staff.
Further and higher education establishments, as well as governors, management, trades’ unions and students’ unions will benefit from an understanding of the issues faced by trans and gender diverse people; all must share the corporate responsibility to provide them with a safe, inclusive and healthy environment.
The training consists of six modules each of which will take about 20 mins to complete.:
- Introduction to gender diversity in further education
- Learners’ experiences
- Employees’ experiences
- Disclosure and privacy
- Promoting equality
- Support
Please note, that if you would like to have access to the free training for your own personal interest, and not professional development, your progress and completion of sessions will not be recorded and you will not be able to generate a record of completion. Please email web@gires.org.uk stating which training you would like to access and we will send you a link to the Open Access Training.
If you require evidence of learning and wish to acquire CPD points, please register and pay £20 to access the training. You will then be sent login details to access the training.
Important information: On successful completion of the test at the end, the information sheet you filled in prior to taking the test will display your results. This will be your certificate. To enable for you to print this certificate, it will have to be saved as a file on your computer, or screen shot and saved as a PDF, this will then enable the certificate to be printed.
You will not be able to return to your results after leaving the training course.