How Do Sporting Communities Promote Diversity and Inclusion?

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• cultural understanding
• digital literacy
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 7 and 8, Health and Physical Development

Students learn to:

• investigate strategies that influence how communities value diversity and propose actions they can take to promote inclusion in their communities (AC9HP8P05).

Relevant parts of Year 7 and 8 achievement standards: Students analyse how stereotypes, respect, empathy and valuing diversity influence relationships.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student:

• applies and refines interpersonal skills to assist themselves and others to interact respectfully and promote inclusion in a variety of groups or contexts (PD4-10).

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability

Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - setting up of materials/resources for interactive activities, timing and facilitation of rotations and prompting of discussion.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

• Activity sheet - Role cards
• Activity sheet - Station sheets
• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• Materials - 20 sticks of spaghetti, 1 metre of tape, 1 metre of string, 1 marshmallow per group

These resources have been created with the support of the Collingwood Football Club and Collingwood Football Club Community Foundation. The Collingwood Football Club Foundation leads social and cultural change through football, and is committed to leading, acting, progressing and inspiring anti-racism, cultural safety, diversity, equity and respect.

Beginning to Include First Nations People’s Perspectives in Your Classroom

Quick Summary: This course aims to inform and upskill educators in incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in their classrooms.