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Aboriginal & Culturally Responsive Pedagogies

Essay
This assignment requires you to produce an original critically reflective essay which is 2000 words in length

Assignment - Essay
This assignment requires you to produce a critically reflective essay which addresses Curriculum, Policy, and Practice. To engage appropriately with the arguments, all Teacher Education Students (TES) must gain access and/or use the Set text (Price and Rogers, 2019) as their key background reading. Before starting your essay, ITE should read several key curriculum, policy, and context-based documents and the weekly readings including the key chapters in the set text. This will help you understand the question requirements and shape your response effectively. The essay requires ITE to engage with materials relevant to your future careers and meet the Aboriginal Education professional requirements at the graduate level (AISTL, 2011).

Unit readings, in conjunction with the lectures, tutorial activities and additional support materials on the vUWS site will provide ITE with the foundational understanding and interconnections between Aboriginal Education Policy, Aboriginal student success, institutional responsibilities and professional opportunities of how to meet Graduate AITSL Professional Standards. The readings and policy documents will also inform your future PRAXSIS in the secondary classroom. Many of the readings in the set text and the weekly reading list will become key components of your essay's reference list and Task 2 requirements. It is essential to keep up with the weekly readings which are outlined in the later pages of the learning guide under Section 3: Teaching and Learning Activities.

Starting the essay

STEP 1: Read
Make sure that you have firstly read the required chapters from the set text Price and Rogers (2019) (Weeks 1-3) and have some sound background information about Aboriginal education in Australia and the complex issues that potentially intersect with your understanding of Curriculum, Policy, and Practice as it relates to you professionally as a graduate.
Then read the first document below. Take notes from this document as it relates to you professionally.

- Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (2022a). Building a culturally responsive Australian teaching workforce. Final reports for Indigenous cultural competency project (June 2022)

Make essay notes as they relate to your potential essay argument. A video of what is required is available on vUWS.

Step 2: Undertake a self-assessment
Using document below, undertake and map your professional identity in the Aboriginal education using pages. In week 2 tutorials, the tutor will walk you through the process of undertaking a self-assessment using the framework document.
Document: Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (2022b) Capability Framework- Building a culturally responsive Australian teaching workforce. (September 2022)
You need to pay particular attention to 'the INTERCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUUM' (AITSL, Pages 7-21). Take notes/highlight where you feel you are placed currently as a graduate entering the unit.

STEP 3: Essay Question
The Indigenous Cultural Competency-Final report (AITSL, 2022) provides significant opportunities for teachers to build capacity and make a difference in their future classrooms. Using your assessment of yourself start to formulate a way forward for you professionally to improve or enhance your professional practice.
Structuring the paper
Using the 'Intercultural Development Continuum framework' and your assessment of yourself, clearly identify TWO key points from your assessment of yourself in the context of the framework that you can action in a positive way as a future classroom teacher.
Explain how the actioning of these two points/strategies ensures you are addressing both professional and policy obligations as a teacher into the future?

Provide additional research which supports how you will develop your professional gaps using the TWO chosen (identified using the tool). Explain how these two approaches will be actioned to ensure alignment with the NSW DET Aboriginal Education Policy (2010), Aboriginal community consultation protocols and syllabus requirements. Need Immediate Assignment Help? Click Here to Get Assistance!
Finally, ITE need to provide ONE detailed, referenced curriculum example that illustrates how you will
implement this into your future classroom practice.' (this is not a lesson plan -but a linked professional statement like the example on vUWS. It should be referenced to syllabus stage, possibly outcome statements and/or content areas).

To complete this essay, you are required to:
Read the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership AITSL (2022) Building a culturally Responsive Australian teaching workforce. Final report for Indigenous cultural Competency project.

Examine and map yourself against the 'Capability Framework-Building a culturally responsive Australian teaching

Critically reflect on the first 4 lectures in this subject and the chapters of the set text. Examine and prepare your argument in the context of your learning from the set text (Price and Rogers 2019), weekly readings, journal articles and tutorial activities (See Activities section of the LG for more essential readings).
Discuss how you as a future teacher will meet Policy/Aboriginal community protocols and Syllabus requirements and enact practices that support cultural competency in your curriculum area/s
Outline how your future graduate requirements will be meet in terms of cultural competence outside those AITSL Standards 1.4 and 2.4.
Provide one detailed curriculum example that supports how you will achieve this in your curriculum area. ( APST 2)

ASSIGNMENT 1 DETAILS
In order to complete this assignment, you need to:
Construct a critically reflective essay that:
Demonstrates both knowledge and understanding required to meet the specific needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners in the secondary Australian context
Present a sustained logical argument which demonstrates an engagement with current literature, the assessment framework, and the set text-Price and Rogers(2019). Also use key Aboriginal Policy documents to support your argument.
Provide one concrete example linked to your chosen curriculum area which clearly shows how you meet professional standards (refs must include: syllabus links, AITSL professional standards links and NSW DET and/or other systemic policy requirements statements.
Demonstrate professional understanding of excellence which fosters strong and systematic practices that encourage schools/ teachers to engage with local Aboriginal community supports and protocols as part of effective school and classroom planning process
Present a paper that uses appropriate terms and terminology, professional literacy when referring to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples for the profession of teaching, within the word limit and uses APA referencing style correctly, including competently integrating evidence.
Provides a complete reference list in APA style that correctly cites the policy, program readings, and additional resources.