Strategies & Resources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.