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Course Description

Two decades of the most tumultuous and unprecedented period of American history and the dream himself, MLK.

Rosa Parks


Audience

Stages 5 and 6 History teachers. English teachers.

Teaching Standards

2.1.2 Proficient Level - Know the content and how to teach it - Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area:  Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities


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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Meet the Teacher and Course Writer

    • Hello, I am Lubna

    • Program as you go
  • 2

    Syllabus - new from old

    • Syllabus Musts

    • Syllabus outcomes and assessments

    • Content Focus

    • Key Features and HSC Questions

    • Question styles and ranges

    • Programming

    • Essential Terminology
  • 3

    Survey

    • The position of African Americans at the start of the period, including:

    • o the impact of World War II on the circumstances of African Americans in the United States (ACHMH084)

    • o the extent of racial segregation and various forms of discrimination (ACHMH084)

    • Resources
  • 4

    Focus Study - Struggles for Civil Rights

    • Programming hacks and teaching themes

    • o formation and role of groups supporting civil rights and their ideas for change (ACHMH085)

    • o the methods employed by civil rights movements in the United States across the period: local and national boycotts, direct action and political agitation (ACHMH087)

    • o efforts of Martin Luther King to achieve change for African Americans

    • o Martin Luther King and Malcom X: beliefs, aims and methods (ACHMH086)

    • o the opposition to civil rights: the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens’ Council (ACHMH088)

    • Questions workshop
  • 5

    Key events of the civil rights movement

    • Teaching approaches and Montgomery Bus Boycott

    • o Montgomery Bus Boycott and the role of Rosa Parks (ACHMH089)

    • o the desegregation of Little Rock High School (ACHMH089)

    • o Freedom Rides (ACHMH089)

    • o March on Washington (ACHMH089)

    • o ‘Mississippi Freedom Summer’ of 1964 (ACHMH089)

    • o the assassination of Martin Luther King

    • Questions workshop
  • 6

    Achievements of the civil rights movement

    • o the nature of social and political change (ACHMH089)

    • o the significance of legislative change, the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the attitudes of US presidents (ACHMH090)

    • o the influence of the US civil rights movement beyond the USA (ACHMH091)

    • Questions workshop
  • 7

    Resources

    • Textbook and Websites

    • Films and Documentaries

    • Resources galore :)
  • 8

    You made it

    • Reflection

    • Thank you :)
  • 9

    Course Feedback

    • Please take a few minutes to give us your feedback

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Presenter

Lubna Haddad

Lubna Haddad

Lubna is an accredited History and Legal Studies teacher, and considers herself a curriculum and history nerd. She also founded Higher Learning in 2009, which partnered with TTA in 2023. Higher Learning offers high quality face to face professional development courses for teachers in NSW.
br> Lubna was Head of HSIE for ten years, and has marked the HSC and judged and marked the SC. She also presented at the HTAA’s annual conference on Nazi propaganda through film and Leni Riefenstahl.

Lubna has been creating and delivering Modern History courses since 2009, helping and supporting hundreds of teachers to improve their pedagogy, confidence in the classroom and ultimately, their students’ results. Her courses include Power and Authority, Civil Rights in the USA, Conflict in Indochina, Germany as the national study and Leni Riefenstahl. Most recently, she ran the booked-out workshop 'This is NOT Peel – Writing and Source Analysis in History'. Her courses are available online via TTA, and face to face through Higher Learning.

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