When: 9am – 3pm Friday 12 May 2023
Where: George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens (Visitor & Event Centre), Gilruth Ave &, Gardens Rd, The Gardens NT 0820 Map of the Botanic Gardens
How much: $110 GST inclusive (+ Humanitix booking fees) – lunch and light refreshments included
This in-person workshop provides an opportunity to support your professional learning communities of practice and local connections through the Narragunnawali professional learning resources.
The workshop will help you gain a greater understanding of the context and concept of reconciliation in Australia and your place in the reconciliation movement.
Delivered by Reconciliation Australia’s Narragunnawali team – in collaboration with Identity, Belonging and Connection (IBC) Community Services – the workshop will cover the following topics:
- Using respectful and inclusive terminology
- Tackling tokenism
- Curriculum planning and the Early Years Learning Framework
- Evaluating resources
- Reconciliation Action Plans as tools to support a whole-service approach to reconciliation
This workshop contributes to 6 hours of Professional Learning aligned to the Teacher Registration Board of the Northern Territory (TRB) Professional Development Framework.
It aligns with the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
- Focus Area 1.4—Strategies for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
- Focus Area 2.4—Understand and respect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
- Focus Area 3.4—Select and use resources.
- Focus Area 3.5—Use effective classroom communication.
- Focus Area 3.6—Evaluate and improve teaching programs.
- Focus Area 6.1—Identify and plan professional learning needs.
- Focus Area 6.2—Engage in professional learning and improve practice.
- Focus Area 6.3—Engage with colleagues and improve practice.
- Focus Area 6.4—Apply professional learning and improve student learning.
Workshop Requirements
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Before the Session
Prior to the workshop, please prepare the following
- Create your individual Narragunnawali user account here.
- Locate or prepare a curriculum/learning planning document relevant to reconciliation to use during this workshop.
- Identify a resource connected to reconciliation curriculum planning to evaluate in the workshop (resources could include books, films, articles, news media, journals, images, maps, websites, posters, objects, provocations, source materials, etc.)
Consider engaging with the following suggested pre-learning resources
- Share Our Pride Share our Pride is designed to take you on an awareness-raising journey, answering questions about reconciliation. It works through material in a certain order so each chapter builds on the last.
- Narragunnawali Reconciliation in Education Webinar Series: Webinar #1 An Introduction and supportive Professional Learning Activity
- Narragunnawali Reconciliation in Education Webinar Series: Webinar #2 Talking the Walk and supportive Professional Learning Activity
- Narragunnawali - Reconciliation in Education: Key Messages
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Pre-learning Survey
Please complete the survey linked below before attending professional learning sessions: ACCESS SURVEY HERE
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What to Bring
Please bring along a laptop or other charged personal electronic device.
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Q&As
I haven't been able to engage with the required readings can I still participate in the professional learning sessions?
Yes. However, your learning experience will be more beneficial if you are able to engage with the suggested pre-learning materials.
I do not have a laptop. Am I able to use a tablet or a mobile phone?
Yes. A tablet or mobile phone is sufficient.
I work in both school and early childhood education and care settings. Which sessions should I attend?
The teachers’ sessions will use the Australian Curriculum to do curriculum planning. The early childhood education and care sessions will use the Early Years Learning Framework to do curriculum planning. Please choose the sessions which will benefit your pedagogical practice and reconciliation journey.
Who can I contact to give more information about my accessibility and/or dietary requirements?
Please contact [email protected] and reference the course title in the subject line.
Will the professional learning occur in a culturally safe space?
The Narragunnawali team advocates for cultural safety and respect. We model these practices when delivering professional learning. Please read the Cultural Safety and Respect in the Classroom professional learning activity to learn more.
Why do I need to sign up to create a personal Narragunnawali User login?
Signing up to the Narragunnawali platform to create a personal login User account (using your own name and unique email address) means that you can:
• freely access the full suite of resources on the Narragunnawali platform
• save your favourite Narragunnawali professional learning and curriculum resources
• be a member of more than one RAP Working Group
• keep track of all RAP Actions and Deliverables that have been specifically assigned to you
• have your name published as a Working Group member on the final RAP document
• receive reminders and notifications about your RAP (e.g. when your RAP is published by Reconciliation Australia, or when it is due to be refreshed)
• receive Narragunnawali news and updates directly to your inbox.Note that Narragunnawali User account is not the same as a Narragunnawali RAP account – you will first need to sign up to the Narragunnawali platform as a User before following the prompts to ‘Create or Join a RAP.’ Multiple Users can then be represented on a single RAP Working Group. A single User can also be represented on multiple RAP Working Groups.
Should you wish to edit your personal login email address after having signed up to the Narragunnawali platform, you can log into the platform via your existing login email address and then visit the Your Account page to update the address in turn.
For more information, you might like to download the Signing up to the Narragunnawali Platform and Creating or Joining a RAP – FAQs sheet.
What professional learning resources are available through Narragunnawali?
The Narragunnawali platform incorporates a suite of free-to-access professional learning resources, each of which are aligned to the National Quality Standard and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. Each professional learning resource is also aligned to one or more RAP Actions, with the guiding information and ideas included on each RAP Action page in many ways able to serve as professional learning tools themselves.
To support you on your professional learning journey, you can also freely register to participate in one or more of our Narragunnawali webinars. Keep an eye out for the Narragunnawali team's presence at national education-focused conferences and events too!
What is a RAP and why should my school or early learning service develop one?
A Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) is a formal statement of commitment to reconciliation. A school or early learning service can develop a RAP using the Narragunnawali platform to register and extend on existing initiatives, or to begin a new journey. Narragunnawali RAPs provide a whole-scale framework and process for driving reconciliation in education, with a holistic focus on strengthening relationships, respect and opportunities in the classroom, around the school and with the local community.
While a RAP represents a plan of action, it is important for schools and early learning services to ensure that their RAPs also function as ‘living documents’. It is important that schools and early learning services enter into the RAP development process with integrity; embed RAP commitments into everyday practice; and engage in ongoing critical reflection, consultation and collaboration with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and community members. This will help schools and early learning services to remain accountable to themselves and their communities and to contribute to active and sustainable change.