Question 1

The National Quality Standards (NQS) for education and care services (early childhood services or outside school hours care) include a series of standards that reflect the inclusion and recognition of each child as unique. These are excellent standards to follow for children of all ages and can be useful in a classroom context.

Access the National Quality Standards and list at least five (5) relevant Standards and/or Elements of the National Quality Standards that help inform educational programming and practice and relationships with children when encouraging understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's cultures.

Question 2

The Australian Curriculum contains a general capability learning category unit called Intercultural Understanding. This contains four (4) organising elements that are based on developing a student's intercultural understanding. List the four (4) elements from this unit.

Question 3

How can you support children from marginalised groups such as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples who find it difficult to engage in learning?

Outline the process of engagement needed to connect with children who display the effects of trauma by listing the three (3) overarching points.

Question 4

Outline the understanding of Australia's historical policy of assimilation in relation to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.