Professional Learning

While development and implementation of your Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) is led by the RAP working group, input and effort from all staff is essential. This resource outlines a number of ideas for involving all staff in the development of your school or early learning service’s RAP.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and content as part of curriculum planning to ensure that the resources being used are meaningful and appropriate.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Civics and Citizenship curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Dance curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Drama curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Economics and Business curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their English curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Geography curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Health and Physical Education curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their History curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Languages curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Mathematics curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Media Arts curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Music curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Science curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Technologies curriculum planning.

This activity asks staff to carefully evaluate resources that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and perspectives as part of their Visual Arts curriculum planning.

Staff sign up to the Everyday Racism mobile phone app experience and, over the course of a week, receive communications that will challenge their assumptions and give them a stronger experience of what life can be like for cultural minorities in Australia.

Educators reflect on how each of the five outcomes of the Early Years Learning Framework can serve as positive input in supporting reconciliation.

Staff engage with the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Face the Facts resources to distinguish ‘facts’ from ‘fictions’ around the shared and unique rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia, and to develop a stronger appreciation of the need to fully recognise and respect these rights.