Implementing a Dreamtime Story for Cultural Safety in Schools

This assignment details a teacher's implementation of a learning activity focused on promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural safety within a school environment. The teacher selected the Dreamtime story "The Bat and the Crocodile" to share with a small group of students. The assignment outlines the planning process, including consultation with a colleague, resource allocation, and the creation of a conducive learning environment. It describes the step-by-step implementation of the activity, student involvement, and the teacher's reflections on the process, including identified positives and suggestions for future improvements. The assignment emphasizes the importance of promoting cultural understanding and safety within the school setting, focusing on student engagement and the use of appropriate communication strategies.

Question 3:
My Contribution: You are to complete the following task in the workplace and document
the activity.
How will you complete this task?
1) Choose an activity from the list below.
2) Ask other staff or external resources for support and guidance, as able or required
3) Implement with a small group of students or an individual student.
Note:
The purpose of this question is to promote Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander cultural
safety within the school environment. It is not intended that the possible activities are
implemented with identified Aboriginal and/Torres Strait Islander students. There is no
intention of teaching Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students about their own
culture. This task is about promoting the culture within a school environment.
Possible activities
Select a Dreamtime Storybook from your school library. Present and share with your student group
and/or individual
Document the activity by completing the following questions:

a) Which learning activity did you select?
I selected activity of dream-time story taken out of my school library named as “The bat
and the crocodile”. One of the major reason behind taking this dream-time story as to
promote aboriginal cultural safety within the school environment in which I am working
and also this learning activity has been conducted to promoting the culture within a school
environment.
b) Identify one community organisation or person (either internal or external) you have
contacted for guidance to complete this task. Identify which channel of communication
you used and justify your choice.
Name of the organisation or person: For this learning activity, Ms Robyn Smallwood
which is my colleague has been taken part being as aboriginal representative in the school and
promote cultural belongs to this area.
Explain why you selected your chosen method of communication and any considerations you
made
For this learning activity, I had chosen verbal/face to face communication to talk to the Ms.
Robyn Smallwood who is the representative of aboriginal cultural environment safety.
Major reason behind choosing this communication mode was to get relevant knowledge on
given topic as this mode is best medium to motivate someone and to get motivated. The
core purpose behind taking this method of communication so as to access easy sharing of
an information between both of us and talking using face to face is motivating someone
also to talk. I talked to representative of aboriginal cultural representative using this mode
of communication and I realized that conversation was much good and responding to
information what I was expecting. Also, my ability and response was expecting to be more
effective to share information pro-actively. Moreover, I realized some changes such as eye
contact which is need to be good.
c) How did you prepare for this learning activity? Explain how you planned for the
following:
Student and time allocation as discussed with teacher:
For this learning activity, students are needed to be focused and must have positive

discipline, so that they would learn much better and appropriately. For promotion of an
aboriginal culture environment, I actually planned and grouped students on the basis of
their ability, skills and talent such as they can learn effectively. Standard time allotted for
this activity is one week which can be further stretched according to the involvement of
students. A chart of one week is prepared by me which helps in dividing work within all
four students. I have divided the time and allowed student to explore their learning, as
because of chances of rising conflict among them.
Resources:
For this level of learning, resources such as books, google, newspaper and guidance of a
teacher will be utilised. As a teacher, I took this dream-time story, personally it’s a choice
by me and I am sure that student had taken productive learning about aboriginal culture
environment safety in the school environment and has tried hard to give positive learning to
the students.
The learning environment:
I planned for learning environment by understanding behaviour of an each and every
student and after that tools, equipment and accessories required for creating perfect learning
environment has been arranged by me. Even, I had evaluated entire learning environment
by making chart of an environment for bringing effective learning on matter of aboriginal
cultural safety environment in my workplace which is the school. Even I personally
checked an entire environment for learning.

Barriers/additional needs identified and my strategies to overcome these:
During learning process, barrier's such as lack of patience, focus and understanding are
major barrier or challenges has been found in students. To overcome this, I had taken
strategy such as gave student task which need patience and focus both so is to learn and
equip more knowledge about aboriginal cultural safety environment which has been taught
in the school workplace. I planned to overcome these barriers by pre developing contingent
strategies so that all the issues can be resolved.
d) Explain step by step how you implemented your learning activity with your student/s?
a) I Identified an actual need for conducting this learning activity.
b) I managed all the students which groups which are effective and ineffective to learn.
c) Identify what to be learnt with students and what needed to be educate to students.
d) Evaluation of learning barriers and strategies to overcome those barriers.

e) Describe how your student/s was involved? Or responded?
All students were involved with their inside soul and full of dedication. I had realised their
focus on reading the dream-time story loudly and I realised that pronunciation ability of
them was far better and they were doing good. I am expecting from them to improve it
further.
f) i) Reflect on the learning activity.
During the learning, all students were full of dedication and focus, but sometimes lack of
patience has been noticed in them which is the critical barrier which has already
overcomes. I realised that, they were involved with their all skills such as reading and
writing. Still out of major barrier, they have carefully and progressively.
ii) Identify the positives.
I found various positives elements such as communication was good among all of the
students plus all students have also gained certain valuable knowledge from this story “The
bat and the crocodile” such as moral lesson for acting in a society.
iii) Identify suggested changes for next time.
I suggested my student to read more books and story so that they would realises real
importance of the learning and learn more. Also, I also suggested them to go more in
context of aboriginal cultural environment safety by reading more dream-time stories.