La Trobe University

School of Education
Name: Auri Topic: Homophobia, transgender and acceptance of diversity Lesson
Parker No.: 1
Subject: School: ##### Duration:
Wellbeing 100
Date: Year level: 9 minutes
2/10/17
Learning Purpose/Rationale: The aim of this lesson is to introduce and engage students with the concept
of non-binary genders and understand the significant impact that homophobia can have on people.

Vic Curriculum (F-12):

Person and Social Capabilities-

The Personal and Social Capability curriculum aims to develop knowledge, understandings and skills to
enable students to:
- recognise, understand and evaluate the expression of emotions
- develop empathy for and understanding of others and recognise the importance of supporting
diversity for a cohesive community

Learning intention
Develop empathy and understanding of how gender and sexuality differs between people and know
the impact homophobia and bullying can have on young people.
Success criteria
Students will discuss and reflect on how they would feel if they were being bullying for being
different.
Students will be able to explain why homophobia should be talked about in schools.

Assessment:
Formative assessment: informal group discussion and personal reflections on the lesson.

Timing Procedure:
in
minutes

Teacher activities: Learner

activities:
Role, Set up chairs etc.
Engagement:
Ask students to brainstorm all the words they can think of relating to
5 minutes gender, including types of people, insults they have heard etc.
 Procedural steps:

10 minutes Discussion some of the words that were written down.

Question the words that are derogatory terms, has anyone use these
terms before? Do we think this is ok? What other words in history can we
think of that are on a par?

Introduce the topic with statistics from the Lets talk about sex- National
5 minutes Youth Survey
https://lms.latrobe.edu.au/pluginfile.php/3257432/mod_resource/conte
nt/1/Lets-TalkAboutSex_AYACYEAH_FinalReport.pdf
10 minutes
Think Pair Share, anything they agreed with, found interesting, didnt
understand- Why do they think we are covering this topic.

5minutes Front Load the topic and explain the videos that they will be watching
might be confronting.

Play the following videos after assessing their prior knowledge.

10 minutes Allow discussion time after each, provide prompting questions if needed.
Being Transgender- Simply Explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQAFYy15N7E

10 minutes Baseball player coming out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgigwJOBGE Homophobia social
15 minutes
experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsOvZLiImYE

Teen bullying/suicide cases:

https://www.ted.com/talks/joel_burns_tells_gay_teens_it_gets_better
12 minutes
Group discussion on why we should talk about homophobia in schools.
18 minutes Personal written reflection time.

Extension activities: Students can share their reflection with a

friend or comment on elements from the lesson

Learning space set-up: Chairs and tables set up so all students

can see the board/screen. U shape preferred if possible.

Teachers resources: Whiteboard markers, whiteboard. Computer, projector.

Catering for inclusion:

Cater for visual learners by using simple videos,
Students can work on their laptop or in their books.
Supporting students by running through the task as a class.

Students resources: computers, pens paper, computers internet.