Discuss ways of incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies into classroom curriculum. In your ESSAY you should develop your ideas using the Australian Curriculum conceptual framework for embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. You also need to engage with historical and contemporary issues such as self-determination, community engagement and racism.
Here are some points for consideration.
Did- Discuss a number of ways how you all as pre-service teachers would incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies into curriculum. So I would expect you all to outline, with examples from the Australian Curriculum, a number of hypothetical examples of how you would design and implement lessons by using the curriculum and by incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. A discussion about why this is important should also be included. Please think back to how you went about this in your tutorials. You could design and discuss a lesson or unit of work and use this as a case study for your assignment. Based on this you could discuss some of the other ideas/questions below and any other ideas that you wish to discuss.
- - I would also expect you to discuss the importance of embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies – E.g. Teaching about culture and embedding it in the curriculum.
- - You could all also discuss how the Australian Curriculum has been designed to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies – refer to lecture 7 and week 7 readings.
- - You could also attach a lesson plan(s) as an appendix (however, this is not compulsory).
- - You should also discuss some historical and contemporary issues, such as self-determination, community engagement and racism, when highlighting the different ways of incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies into classroom curriculum.
- - You should discuss how these issues could potentially have an impact on Aboriginal students and how as teacher's, you could counteract these issues when designing curriculum for embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies.
- - I would also expect you to clearly outline your own pedagogies and how by incorporating Aboriginal ways of learning, you could enhance your lessons.
- - This assignment is a discussion and not a reflective paper. I would expect this assignment to be an academic piece, so no writing in first person, for example.
- You should be able to reference key ideas/perspectives from the readings in this course that have informed your lesson plan development and your discussion around self-determination, community engagement and racism.
- You could even discuss a research based approach to developing your lesson plan. So for example, if you were doing a unit on dispelling myths and stereotypes you might reference Harrison's early article about 'deficit discourse' or Langton's article about representation.
Plz also do proofread once you you finish the assignment . This would hopefully prevent grammatical and spelling errors and provide further advice regarding additional analysis. also you need to refer to the Appropriate Indigenous Terminology document.