A personal Reconciliation Action Plan
Develop a personal Reconciliation Action Plan.
Lesson type: assessment
Countering racism
Assessment: Discuss the ways in which social justice, anti-racism and multicultural education have been conceptualised.
Create a cultural calendar
Assessment: Research and create a Country calendar.
Design a history lesson
Assessment: Design a history lesson aligned to the Australian curriculum.
Identity and student success
Assessment: Matters of identity are key factors in the success or failure of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Inclusive pedagogies portfolio
Assessment: Commence an ‘Inclusive pedagogies’ portfolio.
Investigate local history
Assessment: Investigate a local community context – the history and contemporary issues and their impact on education.
Plan a unit on reconciliation
Assessment: Prepare a unit of work to better understand the impact that colonisation has had on the rights, recognition and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Professional experience
Assessment: Gather evidence on your relationships whilst you are on professional experience.
Professional reflections
Assessment: Reflect on an experience in your life when you felt ‘different’.
Profile your school
Assessment: Profile a potential school in which you could be posted for your first appointment.
Reflect on your values
Assessment: A reflection on your gender, social class or cultural background in shaping you as an individual.
Reflective Journal
Assessment: Keep a Reflective Journal as a written record of your engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues in Teacher Education.
Representation of Indigenous people
Assessment: Describe how a particular national (or ethnic) identity is represented in one or more screen texts.
Review media or text
Assessment: Prepare a critique of a film or book of no more than 750 words and present it to a tutorial group.
The impact of history
Assessment: Argue why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education history cannot be considered in isolation.
The Rabbits: Part 2
Assessment: As a class, or in groups, develop a mind map about the story The Rabbits, by John Marsden.
What is culturally responsive teaching?
Assessment: What does culturally responsive teaching for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students involve?
Write your story of Country
Assessment: Write a story about your chosen region in an essay that connects to a narrative about Country.
Your first school appointment
Assessment: Working with peers as a beginning teacher.