Principles & Resources

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    Relationality
    • Relationality in education means working through relationships.
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    Critical
    Discernment
    • Critical discernment means making deliberate and informed choices when choosing resources and teaching strategies.
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    Pro-activity
    • Pro-activity means actively seeking connections with an open and engaged mindset.
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    Community
    • Community means knowing the story of the community and how the school fits in.
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    Togetherness
    • Togetherness means working together as a team.
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  • Aboriginal & Torres
    Strait Islander peoples
  • Educators
    
& Teachers
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    Education Providers

Educators & Teachers

These key resources will help teachers and educators, including school staff and leaders, to develop their capabilities to establish and enhance relationships between schools and First Nations communities. More targeted resources are provided on each Principle page in this website, providing guidance on specific actions or ideas that can be tailored for your context.

Educators & Teachers

Working with Aboriginal communities

This guide outlines protocols to inform teachers and school staff when consulting and working with Aboriginal communities. It provides helpful information for specific activities such as working with Aboriginal guest speakers and undertaking research.
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Educators & Teachers

UNDRIP

Australia endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007. It contains several articles outlining rights relating to education, providing a paradigm to guide teacher actions relating to Indigenous education. See Articles 14 and 15 in particular.
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Educators & Teachers

Share our Pride

The Share our Pride website has been developed by Reconciliation Australia as an awareness-raising journey, introducing key ideas in 5 chapters: First Australians, Our culture, Our shared history, Beyond the myths and Respectful relationships.
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Educators & Teachers

EATSIPS

Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Schools is a comprehensive guide that provides a framework for planning and action, explains Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and provides strategies for embedding perspectives. It approaches this from personal, classroom and whole-school positions.
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Educators & Teachers

Respect, Relationships, Reconciliation

The RRR website provides three online modules, useful for all educators, to explore key ideas in Indigenous education. The modules - Know Yourself, Know your students, Know what you teach – prepare educators to teach Indigenous students and Indigenous cultural content.
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Educators & Teachers

What Works

The What Works program provides comprehensive resources to help schools and First Nations communities design actions to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous students. It provides guiding frameworks, such as Build awareness – Form partnerships – Work systematically, as well as case studies and exploration of issues.
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Welcome. We would like to acknowledge all the Countries you are on and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We would also like to acknowledge the importance of the local stories of the traditional custodians of the land from which you are learning.