Handbook

Teachers hold significant responsibilities to support, implement, respect, and learn from Indigenous perspectives in the classroom and in educational communities. In this course, you will learn how to enact this responsibility in classroom teaching, schooling, educational policy, and other professional practices. First, you will reflect on and locate yourself, your beliefs, and your perspectives as a future teacher in relation to land, language, culture, time, place, and relationships. You will then learn how this positionality impacts and informs your responsibility as a teacher, and helps you understand your students and their learning needs. Finally, you will engage with a range of Indigenous perspectives, research, theory, policy, and evidence to critically evaluate teaching resources and scenarios. This course will shape your professional practice in teaching in Australia or in other places that have their own histories of occupation, colonisation, or custodianship.