Understanding Bias

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

• critical thinking
• communication
• cultural understanding
• curiosity
• ethical understanding
• global citizenship
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 9, English

Students learn to:

• recognise how language empowers relationships and roles (AC9E9LA01).

Year 10, English

Students learn to:

• understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects and can empower or disempower people (AC9E10LA01).

Relevant parts of Year 9 achievement standards: With a range of purposes and for audiences, students discuss and expand on ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation.

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards: With a range of purposes and for audiences, students discuss ideas and responses to representations, making connections and providing substantiation.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student:

• analyses how meaning is created through the use and interpretation of increasingly complex language forms, features and structures (EN5-URA-01).

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

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

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - facilitate discussions to ensure a respectful space of mutual respect and understanding, where all members of the classroom community feel safe to share and communicate.

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 - Badge template
• Factsheet - Horoscope
• Poster paper 
• Student Worksheet
• Whiteboard
• Visual Explainer - Understanding bias

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.

Respectful Terminology: Engaging with First Nations peoples

Quick summary: This course equips educators with the knowledge and confidence to use respectful terminology when engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories, and cultures.