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

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 21 st century” Irene Beasley

Kangaroo Island Community Education School, SA

Wynnum State High School, QLD

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New resources and opportunities from the Asia Education Foundation

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 Speakers Bureau Asia Skills – view short films of Australians working in/with Asia Asia Skills Resources to support BRIDGE

Supporting schools in effective planning, implementation and integration of student overseas learning experiences into school programs Resources to support BRIDGE

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: – – – – Exploring Asia content in the Australian Curriculum

Lunch

Building Collaborative Activities +

Sharing Collaborative Activities

Q&A

Evaluation