Teacher resources - Courage to Care

Resources for teachers, educators and learners – extend the learning

We offer a variety of additional experiences and resources. Click on the button that interests you to download the resource or to read more about the opportunity offered.

These resources are offered at no cost, but we do ask you to provide your name, email address and name of school/institution so we have statistical records. Donations are always gratefully received.

How to be an Upstander Lesson Plans

Courage to Care has teamed up with Cool.org to develop six digital lessons designed for years 9&10 Students.

Based on our face-to-face Upstander Programs, the Australian-curriculum based lessons are available teachers free of charge.

The downloadable resources will equip teachers to tackle issues of discrimination, including racism and antisemitism, and provide students the tools to stand up and take action against hate speech in their schools and communities.

Upstander Handbook teaching resource

A classroom resource for teachers that extends and deepens students’ understanding of the key themes of the Courage to Care program, including:

Social influence and conformity
How hate escalates
Types of discrimination
Genocides in modern history
The power of symbols (swastika)
Upstander action

Upstander Toolkit

Concise two-page toolkit to equip and empower Upstander action, outlining how to prepare yourself to act, and providing practical suggestions of words and actions for various situations.

Upstander Activity Pack teaching materials

A teaching and learning resource developed by teachers and for teachers that is scalable and flexible, catering to multiple year levels, a diverse range of learners, and differing lesson timeframes.

Designed to generate motivation and passion through creativity, choice, problem-solving, collaboration, and connections to real-world issues.

The power of symbols and the swastika

A teaching and learning resource about the Victorian Government ban on the use of the swastika and the power of symbols.

Teacher Professional Learning

A three-hour program for teachers across all subject and teaching areas, with participatory activities and group work. Our teacher Professional Learning program (TPL) is a fee-for-service offering.

The TPL program will familiarise you with all the elements of the Upstander program your students experience and equip you to support your students in positive culture change.

How to organise a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony

Developed by Nicole Scott, secondary school teacher & graduate of the Gandel Holocaust Studies Program, this program enables students to remember the Holocaust through using a ceremony which honours victims and survivors of the Holocaust. It reminds teachers, students and special guests that they are the hope for the future and they have an obligation to make a difference.

Catholic perspectives on the Courage to Care

This in-depth study unit was created by a team of teachers as a project for the Educational Unit of Yad Vashem specifically for Catholic Religious Education Services on teaching the Holocaust.

The unit focuses on Victims, Collaborators, Bystanders and Rescuers through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching in accordance with Pope John XXIII in Mater et Magistra: “See, Judge, Act”.

The United States Holocaust Museum teaching materials

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) offers access to its vast resources.

Jewish Museum of Australia

Innovative educational experiences for primary and secondary school students that illuminate Jewish life and history, covering diversity and identity, immigration, civics and citizenship, religion and society and intercultural capabilities.

Gandel Holocaust studies program for Australian educators

Gandel Foundation is calling for active and qualified secondary school teachers to apply for the outstanding Gandel Holocaust Studies Program for Australian Educators.

This is a fully funded graduate program; teachers of any subject or discipline may apply if they are teaching or intend teaching the subject of the Holocaust. Those involved in teacher training in Australia may be considered.

This year-long professional development program includes an online learning element, the delivery of a school-based project, and an 18-day intensive in Jerusalem, Israel over the summer break.

melbourne holocaust museum

For a history-focused experience, consider an excursion to Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Australia’s largest institution solely dedicated to Holocaust education, research and remembrance.

islamic museum of australia

A wide range of educational packages for schools that include presentations, guided tours and interactive activities that range from games and dress-ups for younger students to curriculum-aligned packages for older students that cover Islamic faith, art and architecture, Australian Muslim history and contribution.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY.

Entrants must be permanent residents of Victoria with a valid residential address, email address, and phone number.

There is no cost to enter.

There are two categories of Entries:

Victorian School Students Competition – which is open to any currently enrolled student in a Victorian Primary or Secondary School (including VCAL or equivalent); and
Open Competition – which is open to all Victorian residents of any age.

Each Entrant may enter only one photograph.

By entering this Competition, you confirm that:

you are the creator and owner of the entered photograph;
you grant Courage to Care (Vic) (“C2C”) at no charge, a perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use, sell and reproduce your photograph in print and digital media, for use in and promotion:
- of C2C’s 30^th Birthday Exhibition; and
- by C2C for any purpose.
the exhibition and promotion of your photograph does not infringe copyright or moral rights; and
you have obtained all relevant permissions of persons shown in photograph.

Your entry for this Competition must include:
A digital image file in jpeg format with a file size of at least 4 MB and no greater than 10 MB
A title for your photograph; and
A written explanation in no more than 50 words that explains why your photograph is relevant to the theme of “Being an Upstander.” For Further information on this theme, refer to couragetocare.org.au
Digital manipulation and alternative post-capture image processing methods of photographs are permitted.

No entries will be accepted after 11:59 pm on 31 March 2022
C2C will acknowledge receipt of all entries. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within fourteen days, please contact C2C competition@couragetocare.org.au.
Entries will not be accepted or judged if:

under normally accepted standards, the photograph could be considered offensive in terms of pornographic content, character denigration, racial or religious prejudice. The Judge’s decision and discretion will be final; or

The Judges will decide and notify the finalists and also the Competition winners. The Judges’ decision is final and no correspondence concerning the Judges’ decision will be considered.

All finalist photographs will be exhibited at the C2C 30^th Birthday Exhibition and will remain for the duration of this period.
C2C reserves the right to curate the exhibition as it sees fit. C2C will determine whether the photograph will be displayed digitally or as a printed photograph. The costs of printing and display of the photographs will be paid by C2C.
The Competition winners will be announced during the C2C 30^th Anniversary Exhibition.
For the duration of the Exhibition, all Photographs must be available for sale. All proceeds of sales will go to C2C as a fundraising initiative to support their charitable purpose.

Photographs will be sold via a “silent auction”. All photographs will be delivered to the purchaser as a printed photograph at C2C’s expense.
The Prizes for the winning Entrants in the Competition are …TBD

C2C will not be responsible for any loss or damage of the submitted digital image files or printed photographs, however caused.
Please note that this Exhibition is separate from the annual Art Show run by B’nai B’rith Victoria.