House Keeping• Dinner - $30 pp (no alcohol). Charge back to

room.• Settle any extras tonight.• Pack tonight and check out by 8am.• Store bags at Quest in the morning• Start at 8.45am. Finish at 2pm.

Sydney - City Challenge1. Find something Indonesian in Sydney (not your

partner teachers or their belongings!)

2. Travel by at least two forms of transport

3. Identify something that is stereotypically Australian

4. Identify something that is ‘un-stereotypically’ Australian

5. Eat an Australian food

Partnership Goals and Opportunities• Exploring curriculum to support your school

partnership• Identify partnership goals for collaboration• Identify curriculum and technology synergies for

collaboration

Policy to support school partnerships

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‘Global integration and international mobility have increased rapidly in the past decade. As a consequence, new and exciting opportunities for Australians are emerging.

This heightens the need to nurture an appreciation of and respect for social, cultural and religious diversity, and a sense of global citizenship.’

”.Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia• Asia and its diversity • Achievements and contributions of the peoples of Asia • Asia-Australia engagement

Intercultural understandingAssists young people to become responsible local and global citizens, equipped through their education for living and working together in an interconnected world.

Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia: a cross-curriculum priority

Every student will:•learn about and recognise diversity within and between the countries of Asia•develop knowledge and understanding of Asian societies, cultures, beliefs and environments, and the connections between the peoples of Asia, Australia, and the rest of the world•have the skills to communicate and engage with the peoples of Asia so they can effectively live, work and learn in the region.

Australian Curriculum – General Capabilities‘essential skills for twenty-first century learners’

Intercultural understanding‘Intercultural understanding encourages students to make connections between their own worlds and the worlds of others, to build on shared interests and commonalities, and to negotiate or mediate difference…It offers opportunities for them to consider their own beliefs and attitudes in a new light, and so gain insight into themselves and others.’ ACARA

Australian Curriculum structure

Content Descriptors

•Describe core content for each learning area

•Some are very specific

•Many are based on broad student learning outcomes

Elaborations

•Provide teachers with ideas and opportunities of content to achieve the learning outcomes of content descriptors

1: Indonesia content descriptors F-10 • Foundation – Special places: Explore places in Asia that are special to the

people who live there (Geography)• Year 1/2 – Identifying similarities in texts from different cultural

traditions (English)• Year 3 – Images of Indonesia: Examine aspect of life in Indonesia and

compare with their own (Geography)• Year 4 – Wayang puppet plays: Examine the cultural elements of

Javanese wayang puppet theatre (Arts)• Year 5 –Angklung music: Investigate the Indonesian musical instrument,

the angklung (Arts)• Year 6 – Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions:

Researching the use of methane generators in Indonesia (Science)• Year 7/8 –Jakarta face: Investigate the pressures of ever increasing

population of Jakarta (Geography)• Year 9 – Modern Nations in the 20th Century: Indonesia 1942-1974

(History)• Year 10 – Geographies of human wellbeing: Reasons for and

consequences of spatial variations in human wellbeing in Indonesia (Geography)

2: Year 6, Science content descriptor - ASIA

Students develop a view of Earth as a dynamic system. They will investigate major geological events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis in Australia, the Asia region and throughout the world.

3: Content descriptor + Elaboration

Year 3 English

Content descriptorExplore the way that the same story can be told in many cultures identifying variations in the storyline

ElaborationFor example, the Ramayana story which is told to children in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Tibet and Malaysia

4: Content descriptor + teacher choice

Geography Year 9: Geographies of interconnections

•The perceptions people have of place, and how this influences their connections to different places (ACHGK065)•The way transportation and information and communication technologies are used to connect people to services, information and people in other places (ACHGK066)•The effects of people's travel, recreational, cultural or leisure choices on places, and the implications for the future of these places (ACHGK069)

However… Australian Curriculum has only a small proportion of content that explicitly includes Asia (and Indonesia) Content Descriptors•16 % of History content descriptors focus on Asia - 96 % are elective •6 % of Geography content mentions Asia •English has under 1 % •Science and Mathematics have none.

Elaborations•14 % of History elaborations mention Asia •Other subjects have less than 10 per cent. Source: AEF Audit of ACARA documents, January 2014