Embrace Kids: Celebrating Diversity

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• leadership
• problem solving
• reflection
• social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 5&6, HPE:

• describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships (AC9HP6P04)

General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability

Syllabus outcomes: Stage 3, PDHPE

PD3-3

• evaluates the impact of empathy, inclusion and respect on themselves and others.

Relevant parts of Year 5&6 achievement standards: Students propose strategies to demonstrate respect, empathy and inclusion.

UN SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

• Target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one-third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being

• Celebrating Diversity film clip
• Device to share slides, audio and video with students
• Recording: “A Person Just Like Me”
• Slides
• Student colouring sheet (1 per student)
• Student worksheet (1 per student)

Embrace Kids is an uplifting film by Taryn Brumfitt that brings together a vibrant collection of stories from young people and famous friends alike, who share their experiences of body image, bullying, gender identity, advocacy, representation and more. This film aims to improve the body image of young people across Australia and the world. Aimed at 10-14-year-olds - but equally engaging for adolescents, teachers and parents - this film inspires, educates and advocates for a world where we are not held back by the thoughts we have about the way we look. Instead, young people are encouraged to figure out what makes them unique and special and use that to spark change.

The Embrace Kids Classroom Program was designed by body image researchers, teachers, and clinicians.

Level of teacher scaffolding: medium - share media, scaffold student discussion, guide small-group work

Taking Care of Yourself

Teaching is a rewarding yet demanding career and it is dependent on teachers, those amazing humans who invest a lot of personal energy into their work. The majority of teachers’ work involves juggling the many competing demands of a complex job including long hours preparing and correcting student work and attending to administrative tasks. To avoid burnout teachers need to take time for themselves by incorporating self-care practices into their daily lives.