Program Outline

@AsiaEducation

Building Relationships through Intercultural Dialogue and Growing Engagement

Indonesia, South Korea, China and Thailand

BRIDGE supports:

• students to develop intercultural understanding, language and communication skills

• teachers to develop skills and capacities to lead Asia literacy innovation in schools

• effective use of technologies by teachers and students

• people-to-people links that develop communities of friends and learners across borders.

BRIDGE School Partnerships

Australia-Asia School Partnerships

BRIDGE participation across Australia

• Progress – what has your partnership done to date?

• Successes – what has worked?

• Challenges – what has been challenging?

Sharing Practice

Examples of practice

http://asiaeducation.edu.au/teachers/bridge_school_partnerships/project_in_action/heathmont_college_bridge.html

North Sydney Demonstration School, NSW

Mt Lawley Senior High School, WA

Leongatha Primary School, VIC

“We’ve moved from being an isolated school to being part of the wider global community and that’s really important in the 21st century”

Irene Beasley

Kangaroo Island Community Education School, SA

Wynnum State High School, QLD

Follow BRIDGE on Facebook

New resources and opportunities from the

Asia Education Foundation

http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/default.asp

International Education – whole school approach

• Building Demand for Asia Literacy–Studies of Asia–Study of Asian

languages

Resources to support BRIDGE

• Speakers Bureau – Australian secondary schools can invite an Asia Literacy Ambassador to speak at their school

• Asia Skills – view short films of Australians working in/with Asia

Resources to support BRIDGE

Resources to support BRIDGE

• Supporting schools in effective planning, implementation and integration of student overseas learning experiences into school programs

Resources to support BRIDGE

http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/teachers/bridge_school_partnerships/bridge_school_partnerships_landing_page.html

Morning Tea

What possibilities does the Australian curriculum provide to internationalise the curriculum and support BRIDGE?

Policy supporting Asia Content

This is not a separate learning area. It is taught through the learning areas. (Refer to A3 mapping documents)

Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia Cross Curriculum Priority

General Capabilities

Mapping your curriculum

• Break into pairs• Choose a learning area and year level• Nominate an Asia reference in the Australian

Curriculum• Explore following websites for content:

– http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/bridge– http://fuse.education.vic.gov.au– http://www.scootle.edu.au– http://www.google.com.au

Exploring Asia content in the Australian Curriculum

Lunch

Building Collaborative Activities

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Sharing Collaborative Activities

Q&A

Evaluationhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BRIDGE_PL_2012