YChange Teacher's Handbook

The yChange Teacher's Handbook forms part of the yChange Resource Pack developed by South Australia's Commissioner for Children and Young People, Helen Connolly. Launched in 2021, yChange is a curriculum aligned, project based, action civics resource for all primary and secondary educators teaching in South Australia's public, independent and specialist schools. Designed to empower South Australian young people with the attitudes, skills and knowledge they need to become active,...
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The yChange Teacher's Handbook forms part of the yChange Resource Pack developed by South Australia's Commissioner for Children and Young People, Helen Connolly. Launched in 2021, yChange is a curriculum aligned, project based, action civics resource for all primary and secondary educators teaching in South Australia's public, independent and specialist schools. Designed to empower South Australian young people with the attitudes, skills and knowledge they need to become active, responsible citizens, yChange delivers a different way to teach civics and citizenship by taking an action civics approach to lessons and learning. Through yChange students go on a five-part learning journey that equips them with the knowledge of systems and practical skills they need to access, analyse and communicate information. They learn to link civics and citizenship education with ways in which they can take action on issues in their local communities - issues that they would like to see addressed and which they have worked on as a class to identify. Flexible enough to be scaled to suit primary or secondary school students, yChange has been mapped to the Civics and Citizenship skills and knowledge strands of the Australian Curriculum, and aligns with the aims of South Australia's Youth Action Plan.Through yChange young people themselves determine the issue, devise the plan, and put their plan into action, guided by educators who are equipped with teaching resources that will support them to do so. In this way, students have direct experience of how their participation in action civics can bring about positive change - crucial to an understanding of how our democracy works, and their potential to have voice, choice, influence, and agency within it.For more information visit ychange.com.au