Indigenous Literacy Day 2022: Teacher Resources + Further Learning

• Healing Foundation Schools Resource Kit
• Melbourne University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Curricula
• Narragunnawali (need to create an account, but this has excellent resources)
• National Reconciliation Week
• Schools Reconciliation Challenge
• Reconciliation Victoria
• Share Our Pride
• Indigenous Language Art competition
• Australians Together
• Uluru Statement from the Heart
• Racism: It Stops with Me
• Beamafilm - Indigenous films (login with Libraries Tasmania details)

These general education websites also have great content:

• FUSE Education
• ABC Education

Visible thinking routines help support student inquiry into various topics.   

A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking. 

The following routines can be used to help students unpack some of the big ideas behind Reconciliation Week.

• See, Think, Wonder routine to unpack artwork or a photograph.
• Read a short text (eg. newspaper article or song lyrics) and use Sentence, Phrase, Word to uncover the big ideas in the text.
• Watch a video clip and use Connect, Extend, Challenge to build connections, extend thinking and identify questions and challenges.
• Use the Chalk Talk routine to build a collective understanding of the inquiry questions on the home page of this LibGuide.
• After engaging in learning experiences related to Reconciliation Week, use the Colour, Symbol, Image routine to represent big ideas using a colour, symbol and image.
• Ask students to reflect on their learning using the I Used to Think, Now I Think routine.

Consider weaving elements of Indigenous pedagogy into your teaching practice.

8 Ways of Learning

• Story Sharing: Approaching learning through narrative.
• Learning Maps: Explicitly mapping/visualising processes.
• Non-verbal: Applying intra-personal and kinaesthetic skills to thinking and learning.
• Symbols and Images: Using images and metaphors to understand concepts and content.
• Land Links: Place-based learning, linking content to local land and place.
• Non-linear: Producing innovations and understanding by thinking laterally or combining systems.
• Deconstruct/Reconstruct: Modelling and scaffolding, working from wholes to parts (watch then do).
• Community Links: Centring local viewpoints, applying learning for community benefit.

Dialogue circles (or yarning circles)