School, home and community partnerships
School, home and community partnerships and how this applies to the classroom.
Lesson type: concept
Social justice campaigns
An outline of community-based strategies to address racism.
Social justice education
Social justice education is concerned with achieving equitable and quality education for all students.
Students from diverse backgrounds
Students from diverse backgrounds will succeed when they feel that teachers understand their life experiences and care about their learning.
Topic 3: Significant events
Explore historical and contemporary events for Indigenous Australia, and acknowledge and celebrate significant cultural events in our classrooms.
Utilise local expertise
Today, IEWs carry out much the same responsibilities as they did 50 years ago and work in schools where significant numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students are enrolled.
Values
Start Topic 2: Values and Australian Curriculum themes of Ethical Understanding.
Welcome to Country
A ‘Welcome to Country’ is a practice in which an Indigenous custodian or Elder from a particular traditional area in Australia welcomes people to their land through speech, ceremony or music.
Welcoming parents & caregivers
For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, historical issues have left a legacy of deep suspicion in relation to schooling.
Windows and mirrors
For many teachers, the only books available growing up showed mirrors of themselves. Very few provided windows to other worlds.