Teacher Professional Development: History
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Audience
Teachers -
Learning stage
Stage 4, Stage 5, Stage 6 -
Learning area
First Nations, History -
Type
Professional development
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Embedding First Nations perspectives into History lessons is an important part of teaching the NSW History curriculum but knowing where to start can feel overwhelming.
This professional development workshop has been created in consultation with the Australian Museum First Nations Division to address the significant changes to the History curriculum arriving in 2027. The whole day workshop will support Stage 4 to 6 History teachers embed First Nations perspectives to create meaningful and historically rigorous lessons for their students.
Join us in exploring First Nations pedagogies, current research, and the First Nations documentary Her Name is Nanny Nellie, a powerful resource for exploring truth-telling, decolonisation and reconciliation across a range of topics in Stage 4 to 6 syllabus areas.
You will leave with a strong evidence-based foundation, practical classroom strategies, and learning activities that can be immediately adapted and implemented in your own History classrooms.
Completing Embedding First Nations' Perspectives in the History Classroom will contribute 5 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Aboriginal education and supporting Aboriginal students/children addressing Standard Descriptors 1.4.2 & 2.4.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher in NSW
- Career Stage: Proficient, Highly Accomplished, Lead
- Priority Area: Aboriginal Education and Supporting Aboriginal Students/Children
- Related Standard Descriptors: 1.4.2, 2.4.2
- how to approach the new changes in the 2027 syllabus across Stages 4 to 6
- how to embed authentic First Nations voices and perspectives throughout your teaching and learning programs
- how to utilise First Nations pedagogical approaches in the classroom
- how to support First Nations student's learning outcomes
- how to find and use appropriate historical sources that champion First Nations history and decolonial epistemology
- how to create lessons that work toward reconciliation and truth telling
- collaborative learning tasks that unpack First Nations pedagogy
- examples of learning activities to take back to the classroom
- Discussion and advice on the Stage 4 Depth study: Aboriginal Peoples' experiences of colonisation in Australia (1788 -c. 1901) and Stage 5 Depth study: Human rights and freedoms (c. 1938 - c. 2017)
- the provision of a curriculum aligned worksheet for the unit 'The Constructions of Modern Histories' of over 30 pages
- A guided tour of the Australian Museum's First Nations gallery Garrigarrang
Upcoming dates
- Audience: Secondary Teachers
- Cost: $150
- Time: 9:30 - 4:00
- Duration: 6.5 hours
- Lunch is not provided, food is available for purchase onsite
Enter the Museum via the groups booking entrance on William Street. The professional development session will take place in the Patricia McDonald Education Rooms on the Lower Ground (LG) floor.
