Classrooms for Change

The Classrooms for Change Online Professional Development Course was for teachers who wanted support in helping the adolescents in their classrooms to think critically about history, understand the impact of their choices today and choose to become Upstanders in the face of injustice.

Using Facing History and Ourselves curriculum-aligned case studies, as well as learning from the Bertha Centre’s Becoming a Changemaker programme, teachers were introduced to engaging classroom content and teaching methodologies that supported deep learning and courageous conversations around issues of race, belonging, gender and power. Through their respective work as educators, facilitators, researchers and storytellers, the Facilitation Team brought years of experience in supporting and developing teachers and young Changemakers.

Classrooms can be catalysts for positive change as young people reflect on the world, words and themselves to construct their identity, understand consequences and develop agency. This course provided methodologies for teachers to have the courageous conversations needed when moving through the curriculum, and in response to current affairs.

Read the Learning Brief here.