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I would like to Acknowledge the  traditional Owners of the land on which we are living today. I would also like to pay my respects to Elders past and present and the Aboriginal elders. Furthermore, I would like to respect the nature and My Teachers are who are taught me about the culture of Aboriginal people and Torres strait islander in every week seminars.

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I would like to Acknowledge the  traditional Owners of the land on which we are living today. I would also like to pay my respects to Elders past and present and the Aboriginal elders. Furthermore, I would like to respect the nature and My Teachers are who are taught me about the culture of Aboriginal people and Torres strait islander in every week seminars.

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Critical Reflection

From this trimester I have gained knowledge about understanding the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's culture, and beliefs. Reading books, watching videos, notes gave me more information helps me to how to respect the elder. In my teaching strategies, I will study more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders histories before teaching the children in my classroom. It helps me to plan my lessons every day and share stories about Aboriginal people's culture with my friends and colleagues. I was brought up in a different country, but now I learned more about aboriginal people's background and culture, and why we need to respect the elders. From more reading with books in the online, understanding why the land and water are very special in their lives. The land is their mother.

(Hartley & Australian Institute Of Family Studies 1995) After I read through the book Families and cultural diversity in Australia gives more information about Aboriginal families and mentions values are coming from what is happened in the past thousands of years ago. One of the interesting part of the book I found Family and kinship, about personal names are very rarely used. About kinship, Aboriginal people are respecting elderly people and followed them as role models. Elderly family members are very important and special to the family.

After reading ABC News 2021 The Aboriginal people an increased risk from COVID-19 including basic health conditions and the people living in housing and healthcare. Vaccination rates for Indigenous people in some remote areas of Western Australia are very low, which will impact the aboriginal people to seek help (ABC News 2021).

The independent school model held up as the way forward for remote Indigenous education | ABC News. From the video clip  described  Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory to educate children to learn their own culture, language, and knowledge, about literacy and numeracy. The school is set up  in a community in Arnhem Land has been so successful. I will add to my lesson plan from this  video in my classroom.

From the Indigenous education policies and strategies will help Indigenous people to have equal education, equal participation. It means community participation and engagement. Such as examples are requesting  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents to participate in morning teas, participating school functions will be musical events, sports events, drama nights, cultural days, NAIDOC week (Phillips & Lampert 2012).

From the beginning of the course learn Professional Development was very useful. Im living in Victoria but didn't have chance to meet Aboriginal people  communities. The Course gave me more understanding of Aboriginal culture in Victoria and Australia  to guide me to think in my role as a Teacher how I could include in my Lesson plan. Learning from the Elders voices to the Aboriginal children to learn meaningfully.

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Purpose of a voice (Maningrida Night Patrol and Child Safety Service n.d.)

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people believes and to Government policies and programs has to make, hear their voices with the solutions and present them to Government

This video mentioning about will every one work together to with  people having hard time in health, education, employment, housing, and so many other fields.Respect and hear the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to develop the solutions.

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10 Emerging Indigenous Artists to Support (10 Emerging Indigenous Artists to Support | Create | NOTEWORTHY at Office works n.d.)

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 Officeworks  Stores are supporting Art works of Aboriginal people and their amazing artworks.

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 Officeworks  Stores are supporting Art works of Aboriginal people and their amazing artworks.

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I had seen in the social media advertisements it was amazing . They selling the Stationary products and also encouraging to buy Aboriginal Artworks,it is very Beautiful and worth it.
The beauty of  art comes with the Artist through the connection to the land,and water with meaningful stories in side.

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The beauty of Indigenous art is its creators' deep connection to the land, community and Indigenous culture, and the way these elements are reflected in artworks using traditional Indigenous painting techniques. Here you'll discover 10 talented young First Nation artists (such as Hayley Pearson, whose work is featured above) and their beautiful Indigenous art, plus find out how you can support them and their amazing works.

Alkina Edwards

Anika Edwards' creations features shades of soft pink and earthy browns, as well as pops of beautiful florals and native greenery. Based on Yorta Yorta country in Echuca in Victoria, Alkina works with paint and digital techniques to create stunning canvas artworks, and you'll also find her artistic talents on phone cases, as tech wallpapers, and even as tattoos.

Discover more of Alkina's work via Instagram at @alkinacreations and Facebook at AlkinasCreations.

Hayley Pearson

Based in Broome in Western Australia, young Bardi Jawi contemporary artist Hayley Pearson focuses on Indigenous dot art. Her canvas paintings feature a mix of bright rainbow colours, pastel hues and earthy tones, and each painting tells a story about life or the land we walk on.

Hayley's artwork is available for commission via Instagram at @hayleypearsonart and Facebook at Hayley Pearson Artwork.

Wadawurrung artist BJ (Billy-Jay) O'Toole works with a colour palette of vibrant greens, blues, reds and browns, and features birds and other elements of nature in every piece. You'll find BJ's work on cricket uniforms, office buildings and in shopping centres around Geelong, and on water fountains at Deakin University's Geelong Waurn Ponds and Geelong Waterfront campuses.

You can commission or purchase originals or prints of BJ's work via his Instagram at @papul_art and Facebook at Papul art.

Steven Bekue is a Bundjalung and Bidjara man and the Indigenous artist behind Bundjalung Dreaming. Along with canvas paintings, Steven's designs have also been used on fabrics for office and school furniture to give students an awareness and appreciation of Indigenous culture.

You can support Steven by purchasing or commissioning his Indigenous artwork via his Instagram at @bundjalung_dreaming or on Facebook at Bundjalung Dreaming.

Caitlyn Davies-Plummer

Caitlyn Davies-Plummer is a proud Barkindji woman living on Kaurna land in Adelaide, South Australia and is the incredible Indigenous artist behind Dustin-Koa Art. Caitlyn works with soft purples, pinks, midnight blues and earthy tones to create her stunning canvas pieces. Her designs have also been featured on a limited-edition collection of women's apparel in collaboration with Proud Poppy Clothing.

To discover more of Caitlyn's work, contact her via Instagram at @dustinkoaart.

Zowie Baumgart

Born in Canberra and raised in her family's traditional country in southern Queensland, Zowie Baumgart is a self-taught Indigenous artist whose artworks represent a bridge between traditional Indigenous art and modern expression. Along with her beautiful canvas creations, Zowie has collaborated with Jarjum Dollies and handpainted a selection of limited-edition dolls with Indigenous dot art.

You can commission originals or purchase prints of Zowie's work via her website and follow her on Instagram at @zowie.aboriginalart and on Facebook at Zowie.Aboriginal.Art.

Holly McLennan-Brown, the Indigenous artist behind Koorie Tales, shares the beauty of her culture through each of her pieces, and feels her artwork is "gentle and soft-spoken". In addition to her paintings, Holly, a proud Yorta Yorta woman living on Wurundjeri country, has collaborated with jewellery designer Erin Kate Venville to create a collection of earrings featuring her designs, and has also handpainted a pair of football boots for AFLW Western Bulldogs player Isabel Huntington.

You can purchase prints of Holly's work via her website and follow her on Instagram at @koorietales and on Facebook at Koorie Tales.

Bayley Mifsud

A proud Kirrae and Peek Wurrong woman of the Gundjitmara nation in South-West Victoria, Bayley Mifsud's Aboriginal name is Merindah-Gunya, meaning "Beautiful Spirit" in Peek Wurrong language. Bayley's talent for creating Indigenous art began at age 5 when she and her family would often visit the Brambuk Aboriginal Cultural Centre in the Grampians where she would practise Indigenous art, music and dance, while being guided and encouraged by her Elders.

Bayley has collaborated with Officeworks to create the Otto + MG range of stationery supplies and lifestyle products including notebooks, pencil cases, keep cups, and water bottles featuring designs inspired by her ancestors and Elders of the Eastern Maar Peoples. Available exclusively at Officeworks, 50 cents from the sale of every Otto + MG product is donated to The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation to provide creative programs for First Nations communities.

You can purchase Bayley's artworks from her website and follow her on Instagram at @merindahgunya.art and on Facebook at Merindah-Gunya Art. You can also purchase her collection of Otto + MG products from Officeworks by clicking here.

Karissa Undy

Kpu_creative is an Indigenous Australian art business founded by a Sicilian and Wiradjuri woman, Karissa Undy. Based on Yugambeh and Kombumerri country on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Karissa uses soft pastel and earthy paints to create unique contemporary Indigenous artworks that represent culture, nature, positive energy and healing.

You can purchase Karissa's original and limited-edition artworks from her website and follow her on Instagram at @kpu_creative and on Facebook at Kpu_creative.

Based on Gubbi Gubbi country in Queensland's Sunshine Coast, contemporary Indigenous artist Lou Martin only recently began sharing her love of creating art. Her pieces are a reflection of her deep connection to her coastal and hinterland surroundings and this passion is represented through her use of soft pastels and pops of colour in her contemporary dot paintings.

You can purchase Lou's limited edition and children's prints via her website and also follow her on Instagram at @lou_martin_design.

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10 Emerging Indigenous Artists to Support

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The beauty of Indigenous art is its creators' deep connection to the land, community and Indigenous culture, and the way these elements are reflected in artworks using traditional Indigenous painting techniques. Here you'll discover 10 talented young First Nation artists (such as Hayley Pearson, whose work is featured above) and their beautiful Indigenous art, plus find out how you can support them and their amazing works.

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Integration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander approaches 

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I designed three lesson plans for non-indigenous children that will help to about aboriginal people cultures and traditions. Using materials for this lesson plan for children can access and engage appropriately. Promote opportunities for children to learn the name of materials and tech how we use them. Examples are boomerang, musical instruments Traditional instruments Didgeridoo, clap sticks. Integration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander approaches

I designed three lesson plans for non-indigenous children that will help to about aboriginal people cultures and traditions. Using materials for this lesson plan for children can access and engage in the appropriate manner. Promote opportunities for children to learn to name of materials and tech how we use them. Examples are boomerang, musical instruments Traditional instruments Didgeridoo, clap sticks.

As a teacher, all the aboriginal resources are very important for us to teach the children in the classroom very briefly how we are using them. Also, asking questions after group time will help what they learn from the stories. Encouraging the children to discuss and give their own opinions about the books. From the environment plan I may consider in the plan going for the excursion (Bush kinder) so children will explore their minds bring the resources to the classroom and create artwork or painting (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) 2017).

I may find out, as my lesson plan will be helpful for children will understand very visually without reading books. Also, the small group times discussed the video playing from the National Geographic Channel about the aboriginal people's lives and families (National Geographic, 2013).

(OUTCOME 1: CHILDREN HAVE A STRONG SENSE OF IDENTITY IN THIS FACT SHEET EDUCATORS WILL n.d.) Teaching about drawing and painting to the children to use black, yellow, green, blue, and white colours in different patterns and activities will promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Teaching about the colours why they are special Black, Red, Yellow and White is represents Dream time stories. Black represents Earth. Red represents fire, energy, and blood. Also remains the children will understand in the art lesson, dot painting are eye-catching with hidden meaning about the dream time stories.

Indoor and outdoor environments gives support songs and reading book lesson plan.
Children’s learning and invite conversations between children, teachers, families and community to learn about how to look after. Giving opportunities for children to think and working as team.
Oral learning story times and the language connected to song, gesture games and rhymes.As a Teacher  write our own stories, songs, and rhymes, and choose children’s stories from  our lesson program is based on and reflecting from the cultural backgrounds of the children in my classroom.

Environment setup Lesson plan for ART
Displaying the Aboriginal flag gives respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures and Respect Indigenous participation in the program. A welcoming environment is beginning partnerships with Indigenous families.

Decorating and celebrate seasons the children dig clay to make pots, grab logs to hold the materials and gather for art play for to paint. They make shelters from natural materials, and draw and paint on the rocks using the coloured brushes(using grass).

(Kamenev, 2018) in future lesson plan I will consider increase learning natural and familiar to make bush medicine are Eucalyptus oil made with the leaves can be healing body pains and fevers and chills. Aboriginal people taste orange desert mushroom to remedy for sore mouth or lip. Natural teething ring, and is also helpful for babies

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Protocols and Aboriginal perspectives Before and after I will the strategies from the Possum Skin Pedagogy as a GUide.(Atkinson, 2017).

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Critical Reflection of Professional Development

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Professional development before introducing to the children, my new lesson plan in the classroom is difficult for young children in group time. I suggest keeping short circle time and reading one book. Presenting musical instruments of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for all children will not help instead of using video clips. The children will be practically engaged with the materials. Aboriginal culture is based on song and storytelling and encourages the children to enjoy music when they come to school.

(Korff, 2019) Teaching Aboriginal children, I may find difficulties in the future. Conversations are with the Elderly people with eye contact means not being polite in their culture. Aboriginal children are doesn't want to answer questions in the classroom it comes through the passing stories from generations reason is Aboriginal children don't want to be the other's attention. Struggling to understand the lesson, I can speak clearly and politely to explain the lessons.

In teaching and learning Indigenous languages and cultures giving lots of meaning full to present language and culture information, teaching and learning can be using the pedagogy practices to correct pronunciation of words reclaimed from Western historical records.

Web-based databases and catalogues, purchased as e-books or e-articles, when available online, or personally accessed via public library collection help me find out information to teach the children. In the cultural framework of Indigenous literacy, it gives more information by storytelling with the knowledge to use collective pronouns. Instead of the word "I, am" I can use "we are" it shows the role modelling of working together (The ImporTance of TeachIng and LearnIng aborIgInaL Languages and cuLTures, n.d.).

Challenging Situations are explaining about the culture or read Aboriginal language books and to pronouncing the words in the book also songs.  I needed Strong relationships with Indigenous program and fluent Aboriginal languages. Adopting principles of early childhood pedagogy support to encourage children’s learning by intentional teaching, learning through play. Lack of resources doesn’t help for the children to engage the lesson plan (not enough Aboriginal musical instruments). Future I may consider to order more of instruments or create let children make ones. Holistic approaches to pay attention to children’s physical, personal, social, emotional and spiritual.

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Improvement recommendations and ongoing professional learning and development strategy

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Improvement recommendations and ongoing professional learning and development strategy

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Every day teaching practices will help my teaching strategies to create classroom tasks for the children. Keep my routine every morning, respect elders past and present with the acknowledgement. My ongoing professional, I will attend work shop to gain more knowledge about Aboriginal. Future I may invite Aboriginal people as a visitor to our classroom to setting up in the yarning circle time, so the children will know about briefly about Aboriginal culture with other culture with asking questions.

Following 8 ways of learning Aboriginal and Torres Strait pedagogy ways supports to teach the Australian Aboriginal and non - Aboriginal children in the classroom.

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After I found from about this article I gained the knowledge of interplay between using words for singing, danced or imaged with children gives deeper knowledge of Indigenous Language. Also, artworks and followed by the teacher mentioning in the classroom about nondescript dots, Strokes and swirls. About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, land is value and having bond in their life coming from the dreamtime stories. (United Nations, 2011).

(Queensland Studies Authority, 2013) future development teaching Aboriginal children in my classroom I will improve use non-verbal communication to support songs and read dreamtime stories using short questions examples are “what colour bird?”, “jump higher” from the books (Kangaroos Hop,Koo koo koo kokobara). Using physical movements are gestures, actions and facial expressions, objects and pictures, highlighting action words (verbs). For the non-Aboriginal children by using more technologies in the classroom examples are using projector to display about dreamtime stories, children will show more interest to hear the about how to respect the Aboriginal elders.

As a teacher, I will respect the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres strait islander families and communities, where are they come from. The goals to teach the children strongly about the Aboriginal culture values and beliefs and to give opportunities to create the classroom.

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