The best teaching strategies for teaching practice in Indigenous education gained from unit topics, from the Strong and Smart documentary and from AITSIL Professional Standards mini viewings are as followed:
Example One: How Indigenous student learning is understood and engaging them by integrating curriculum through Aboriginal perspectives. “Good teaching often works in different ways for Indigenous and non-indigenous students” (Harrison & Sellwood, 2016, p. 71). For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, learning is a practical trial and error process. These Indigenous students favour this type of learning whilst demonstrating stimulating interest and motivation of learning by imitating others. Furthermore, these students …show more content…
The principal Chris Sarra of Cherbourg State School in South East Queensland discusses best teaching practices for Indigenous students. The turnaround and rise of the school are based on certain principles: discipline, direction, learning, purpose, pride and unity. In the QUT Creative Industries video (2002), Chris Sarra states there was no pride in the school at the beginning. The community and students were complex and he had to give the children confidence because school is where Indigenous students come to learn. Chris Sarra stresses the point of raising the student attendance at school to raise the opportunities for learning. If the students are at school they want to learn, they are teachable. The principal Chris Sarra expects “his teachers and teacher aides to be engaging students in effective learning and teaching, not babysitting” (QUT Creative Industries, 2002). The students displayed best how they learn when they are happy, having a good time, when they feel belonging and when classrooms are full. The children enjoyed particular lessons of traditional dance, music and hand
Example One: How Indigenous student learning is understood and engaging them by integrating curriculum through Aboriginal perspectives. “Good teaching often works in different ways for Indigenous and non-indigenous students” (Harrison & Sellwood, 2016, p. 71). For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, learning is a practical trial and error process. These Indigenous students favour this type of learning whilst demonstrating stimulating interest and motivation of learning by imitating others. Furthermore, these students …show more content…
The principal Chris Sarra of Cherbourg State School in South East Queensland discusses best teaching practices for Indigenous students. The turnaround and rise of the school are based on certain principles: discipline, direction, learning, purpose, pride and unity. In the QUT Creative Industries video (2002), Chris Sarra states there was no pride in the school at the beginning. The community and students were complex and he had to give the children confidence because school is where Indigenous students come to learn. Chris Sarra stresses the point of raising the student attendance at school to raise the opportunities for learning. If the students are at school they want to learn, they are teachable. The principal Chris Sarra expects “his teachers and teacher aides to be engaging students in effective learning and teaching, not babysitting” (QUT Creative Industries, 2002). The students displayed best how they learn when they are happy, having a good time, when they feel belonging and when classrooms are full. The children enjoyed particular lessons of traditional dance, music and hand