This practice guide will help teachers understand how to develop responsiveness by engaging in reflexive practice and building relationships of trust with students, their families and community.
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Developing learning environments where people from all backgrounds are valued and respected requires teachers to be reflexive and responsive. Reflexivity is a tool that facilitates critical examination of your own personal attitudes, values, biases and assumptions. It’s through reflexive practice that you can evaluate how your behaviours and ideas influence your teaching and learning.
This practice guide will help you understand how to:
- develop responsiveness by engaging in reflexive practice to examine your own culture, history, biases and assumptions, and the impact of these on your teaching
- build relationships of trust and learn about the perspectives, needs and aspirations of others
- develop and continually strengthen culturally responsive practices to address the needs of the diverse community of your school, helping to build learning environments where everyone feels safe and included.
Keywords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander