Building Respectful Relationships
Stepping out against gender violence
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships
The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships learning materials have been designed for teachers in primary and secondary schools to develop students’ social, emotional and positive relationship skills. Efforts to promote social and emotional skills and positive gender norms in children and young people has been shown to improve health related outcomes and subjective wellbeing. It also reduces antisocial behaviours including engagement in gender-related violence.
The Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence recommended Respectful Relationships be introduced to all government schools. Evidence presented to the commission showed that family violence is the most pervasive form of violence perpetrated against women in Victoria.
The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) learning materials cover eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning across all levels of primary and secondary education.
Topic content and activities differ to ensure age appropriate material.
Topic One – Emotional Literacy: to help students develop the ability to be aware of, understand and use information about the emotional states of themselves and others with competence.
Topic Two – Personal Strengths: to show the importance of building and using a strengths vocabulary, and identifies the ways in which teachers can use the lesson tools to equip them in their efforts to give positive formative feedback on relational matters.
Topic Three and Four: Positive Coping and Stress Management: to provide opportunities for children to identify and discuss the values of different types of coping strategies
Topic Five: Problem Solving: to introduce students to a range of problem-solving skills, through applied learning tasks, so that they are able to cope with personal, social and ethical dilemmas.
Topic Six: Help Seeking: to help students discuss the importance of seeking help and providing peer support when dealing with problems that are too big to solve alone.
Topic Seven: Gender and Identity: topromote respect and an appreciation for diversity and difference. Assisting students to challenge stereotypes and critique the influence of gender norms on attitudes and behaviour. Students learn about key issues relating to humans rights and gender identify, and focus on the important of respect within relationships.
Topic Eight – Positive Gender Relations: to focus on the development of self-care, peer support and help-seeking skills that can be applied in response to situations involving gender-based violence within family, peer, community or on-line relationships.
For more information on how RRRR fits into the curriculum across different year levels, please visit:
https://arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au/learning/resource/0249f9d6-e536-4122-9298-dbd3d6b29808?fuse=1
For extra listening and viewing on emotional intelligence:
The Imperfect - Lael Stone- Creating Emotionally Intelligent Humans
How to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children / Lael Stone / TEDxDockalnds
If you or anyone you know is experiencing domestic, family or sexual violence,
1800RESPECT.org.au is the national domestic, family and sexual violence counselling, information and support service which operates 24 hours to support those who are impacted.
CALL 1800 737 732
Sarah, Brenton, Luca, Marta and Woody
The Respectful Relationships Team