Emma Rayner
Teaching Portfolio
Professional Knowledge
Arts Unit Plan - Aboriginal Reconciliation
Annotations - Reconciliation
Description
This arts unit was collaboratively developed around the idea of promoting understanding and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. It includes a variety of arts activities based around building understanding of Indigenous Australian culture language and sense of community.
VIT Standard
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1.4 Strategies for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, design and implement effective teaching strategies that are responsive to the local community and cultural setting, linguistic background and histories of aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
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2.4 Understand and Respect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, Provide opportunities for students to develop understanding of respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and languages.
AusVELS
Cross Curriculum Priorities
Country/Place
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Australia has two distinct Indigenous groups, Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities maintain a special connection to and responsibility for Country/Place throughout all of Australia.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have unique belief systems and are spiritually connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways.
Culture
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ ways of life are uniquely expressed through ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have lived in Australia for tens of thousands of levels and experiences can be viewed through historical, social and political lenses.
People
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The broader Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies encompass a diversity of nations across Australia.
PoLT
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1.2 promotes a culture of value and respect for individuals and their communities
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3.1 uses strategies that are flexible and responsive to the values, needs and interests of individual students
Personal Philosophy
Students need to be given opportunities to learn about the backgrounds of others in order to develop understanding and respect.
Other Theory
“One of the most challenging issues facing Australia today is reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.”(Craven & Ronda, 1995) Citizen education is about addressing social disadvantage and improving society therefore must include Indigenous studies (craven & Ronda, 1995) to develop knowledge, understanding and respect of all Australians.“The Arts and arts rituals are indicators of what it means to be human and … they can provide a trigger for reform in the community” (Gibson, 2011). All Indigenous cultures embed their stories in some form of art such as dance, music and visual art. (Gibson, 2011)
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Annotations - Imagination and Creativity
Description
Throughout the unit students would engage in a number of different arts domains including media, music and visual arts. Students are encouraged to engage in the creative process individually and collaboratively to create various products such as story writing and a Claymation video.
VIT Standard
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2.2 Content selection and organisation, organise content into coherent, well-sequences learning and teaching programs.
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2.6 Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful.
AusVELS
Various – see unit plan for specifics
PoLT
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2.2 uses strategies that build skills of productive collaboration.
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3.2 uses a range of strategies that support the different ways of thinking and learning
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3.4 capitalises on students' experience of a technology rich world.
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4.6 uses strategies to foster imagination and creativity.
Personal Philosophy
Being a music teacher I believe it is important for students to use their imaginations, be creative and to express themselves and this can be done by incorporating the arts into the daily classroom program.
Other Theory
Imagination and creativity have become some of the ‘must have’ skills for twenty-first-century living yet isn’t as valued as subjects such are numeracy and literacy are (Vicars, 2011). “It is very appropriate to provide the student with an imaginative and creative impetus with which he/she cannot only create or establish the frame for his/her own life, but supply the tools for the painting of the picture of life.”(Annarella, 1999)