Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education resources

The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land, sea country and waterways from across Australia. We honour and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Illustrations of Practice

AITSL has a range of illustrations of Practice to help you with advice and support in teaching about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, languages and cultures.

Building a culturally responsive Australian teaching workforce

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.

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.

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

Indigenous cultural responsiveness continuum

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

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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

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 cultural responsiveness.

Advice for beginning teachers in remote settings

These resources were developed to help beginning teachers who are preparing to live and teach in remote communities. The information provided will allow teachers to understand unique communities and teaching contexts.

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Teacher Standards

Meeting Focus Areas 1.4 and 2.4 of the Teacher Standards

These unit outlines were developed with a dual purpose; to support new and existing teachers in meeting Focus Areas 1.4 and 2.4 of the Teacher Standards and for use by providers of initial teacher education.

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Research and reports

AITSL has a range of papers and reports to gain evidence-based insights, including the recent spotlight: The impact of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators.