Recognising Gender Stereotypes and their Impact on Relationships

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

• critical thinking
• communication
• digital literacy
• empathy
• ethical understanding

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 7 & 8, HPE

• Examine how roles, decision-making, and levels of power, coercion and control within relationships can be influenced by gender stereotypes. (AC9HP8P03)

General capabilities:  Ethical Understanding, Literacy

NSW Curriculum:

• PD4-3 - Investigates effective strategies to promote inclusivity, equality and respectful relationships.
• PD4-10 - Applies and refines interpersonal skills to assist themselves and others to interact respectfully and promote inclusion in a variety of groups or contexts.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

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

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – teachers will need to project some content to the class to view and support students in completing the student worksheet.

UN SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

• Target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.

• Device with internet access and ability to project to the class
• Student devices for research
• Student worksheet or notebook

Trailblazers is a Savage Films, Milestone Films, and LM Films production by Director/Producers Maggie Miles and Maggie Eudes and Producer Lucy Maclaren.

Trailblazers tells the story of the fight for equality by Australia’s female footballers. It celebrates the rise of Australian women’s football from the early days of paying-to-play in front of small crowds to appearing in sold-out stadiums, watched by over 11 million people at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. 

The Cool.org resources and impact campaign are supported by major partner MECCA M-POWER and driven by Documentary Australia. The Trailblazers campaign aims to build momentum for further progress in gender equality and leadership and to increase investment and opportunities for women and girls to participate in sports.

If Trailblazers has inspired your students to take action, they can #Blaze a Trail for gender equality by take part in campaigns and sharing their commitment with the world. 

Visit www.trailblazersfilm.com.au 

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Quick summary: This course will introduce you to tools and methods for increasing people’s willingness to participate in change in your classroom, school or organisation. You will learn the basics of behavioural science, shared by international experts, different techniques that can increase people’s adaptability in times of change and how to create a culture where people are more willing to participate in change.