Understanding the Impacts of Racism

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

• critical thinking
• communication
• community engagement
• cultural understanding
• empathy
• ethical understanding
• intercultural understanding

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 9, English

Students learn to:

• recognise how language empowers relationships and roles (AC9E9LA01)
• analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contexts (AC9E9LY01).

Year 10, English

Students learn to:

• understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects and can empower or disempower people (AC9E10LA01)
• understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly, reveals an individual's values (AC9E10LA02).

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:

• evaluates how texts represent ideas and experiences, and how they can affirm or challenge values and attitudes (EN5-URB-01).

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, Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia, Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class 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 - Scenario cards
• Poster paper and pens
• Student Worksheet
• Visual explainer - Types of racism

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.