Teaching Indigenous Learners
UndergraduateLTU-EDU3TIL2025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Start dates
- 28 Apr 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Teaching Indigenous Learners
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Critically examine personal assumptions, preconceptions and values when relating to teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners.
- Demonstrate broad knowledge and understanding of the impact of cultural identity and linguistic background on the education of students from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.
- Design indigenous curriculum demonstrating knowledge of a range of resources, including ICT that engage students in their learning.
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of understanding and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and languages and explore the impact of culture identity and linguistic background on the education of students.
- Identity and Childhoods, Story Sharing
- Indigenous Perspectives across Learning Areas and Land Links
- Teaching Indigenous Students, Strategies and Resources and Non-Verbal Meaningful Resources Encounter
- Teaching Indigenous Students, Strategies and Resources, Support Student Learning – 21st Century – Personalised Learning Plans (ILPs)
In this subject students develop an understanding of Indigenous education in Australian schools. Pre-service teachers explore educational strategies and pedagogy to support Indigenous children and maximise learning outcomes. Preservice teachers seek to identify the challenges in indigenous teaching and learning and utilise research and resources to inform best practice. The subject will promote positive attitudes within the broader community towards Indigenous students and their cultural protocols.
- Diagnostic tasks (400 equivalent words) (10%)
- Reflective Journal (1550 words) (40%)
- Indigenous teaching and learning resources evaluation, critique and presentation (2000 words) (50%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-ECE-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: EBECEO.
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed EDU2CII (Cultural and Indigenous Issues) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
UndergraduateLAT-ECE-DEG