Introduction

To begin your professional learning, you might like to access the Indigenous cultural responsiveness self-reflection tool as a starting point, then explore the Indigenous cultural responsiveness development continuum and Indigenous cultural responsiveness capability framework for more information.

AITSL worked collaboratively and consulted with the profession, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education experts, students, families, and communities to develop a professional learning toolkit. The toolkit provides resources to support the cultural responsiveness of teachers and leaders to enhance their teaching practice.

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Indigenous cultural responsiveness self-reflection tool

Use this tool to reflect on your self-awareness of worldviews, assumptions, attitudes, beliefs, and biases in relation to personal identity and culture.
Access the tool
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Indigenous cultural responsiveness continuum

The continuum provides a shared language and understanding of the non-linear process of building cultural responsiveness.
Access the continuum
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Indigenous cultural responsiveness capability framework

Learn more about your current stage of cultural responsiveness and find recommended actions to support your ongoing learning, so that you can improve your teaching practice.
Download the framework


Building a culturally responsive Australian teaching workforce report

Finding and recommendations

This report calls for institutional action at the school, system, sector and national level, supporting teachers to enhance and enrich their practice and to maximise student outcomes by developing their intercultural responsiveness.

The development of this report

AITSL reviewed the evidence and partnered with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education experts and the profession to develop this report with guidance from the Advisory Group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education (AGATSIE), and in consultation with the teaching profession, students, families, and communities.

AITSL acknowledges their generous input to the report and the important body of work it represents and is grateful for the opportunity to have learned from them throughout the course of this project.