Education Week

Victorian Government resources

Marrung, the name for the Murray Cypress tree in the Wemba Wemba language, is the strategy to ensure all Koorie students in Victoria achieve their learning aspirations. Marrung also helps connect schools and parents with Koorie education teams to support cultural inclusion and education guidance in their region. For more information, contact marrung@education.vic.gov.au.

The Victorian Aboriginal Honour Roll recognises and celebrates the achievements of Aboriginal Victorians who have made a profound contribution to their community and wider Victoria.

Community resources

50 Words Project is an interactive map that encourages students and families to learn 50 words in the local Indigenous language of the land that they live on.

Deadly Story is a cultural resource portal that helps Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care connect to Indigenous identity through Culture, Country and Community.

Bunjilaka Aboriginal Culture Centre at Melbourne Museum tells stories of celebration and survival of Indigenous Australians through learning resources, exhibitions and art.

The Shared Understanding podcasts and video series from the Centre for Multicultural Youth lets students hear from other students and young people with lived experience of the benefits of diversity at school and how to deal with racism and discrimination.

Multicultural Museums in Victoria explore different cultures from across the world, provide their unique perspectives and celebrate their contributions to our community. See the list of museums below:

• Melbourne Museum’s Pacific and world cultures exhibits
• Co.As.It Italian Historical Society and Museo Italiano
• Chinese Museum
• Hellenic Museum
• Islamic Museum of Australia
• Jewish Museum of Australia
• Melbourne Immigration Museum

The Global Design Challenge facilitates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) focused partnerships for primary and secondary school students with students across the globe, enhancing their critical and creative thinking skills and global competencies.

The Victorian Young Leaders (VYL) program offers an immersion experience for Years 9 and 10 students and accompanying teachers. The program provides students with the opportunity to develop leadership, global citizenship and language skills, as well as intercultural capabilities.

The Global Youth Forum is a 3-session forum, connecting Year 9 and 10 students in Victoria with their peers across the Asia-Pacific to create collaborative solutions to local issues. EOIs close on 25 July for the Term 3 cohort.

Various supports and requirements are delivered through the Victorian Curriculum F-10 Version 2.0 to support Multicultural education. See below for area-specific curriculum resources from the Victorian Government:

• Intercultural Capability enables students to explore their own and others’ cultural practices and cultural diversity in Australian society. Resources to support teachers are also available.
• Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia is a cross-curriculum priority which enables students to learn about societies, beliefs, histories, cultures, languages and environments of Asian nations. This helps them develop knowledge, skills, capabilities and attitudes to effectively navigate and contribute to our regional neighbourhood and to emerge as active and informed global citizens.
• Learning about world views and religions is a guide for teachers and schools to provide opportunities for learning about world views and religions across the curriculum, enabling students to be informed and engaged at both a local and global level. This supports an understanding of the perspectives of diverse local communities and the beliefs and practices of diverse traditions.
• Holocaust Education must be taught to all Victorian government school students as part of the school’s Level 9 and 10 World War II History curriculum program.

• Multicultural education programs and resources are resources and information to help schools build intercultural capability and strengthen inclusion.
• Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre is a specialised library providing resources and advice to support the fields of Languages, English as an Additional Language, Multicultural Education and the cross-curriculum priority areas and capabilities including the intercultural capability of students.
• Student Leaders for Multicultural Inclusion (PDF, 2.39MB) is a guide intended for staff and students to use as a collaboration tool for discussion and improvement of multicultural awareness and inclusion in their schools through student voice, agency and leadership.

• Refugee Education Support Program, co-delivered by Foundation House and the Centre for Multicultural Youth, is a 2-year intensive capacity-building program aimed at assisting schools to identify and implement strategies which have a positive impact on the achievement, engagement and wellbeing outcomes of students from refugee backgrounds and their families.
• Supporting students from refugee backgrounds provides information for schools about how to support students from refugee backgrounds.
• School’s In for Refugees from Foundation House offers guidance, professional learning resources and workshops for school staff, including Multicultural Education Aides, to support refugee students to thrive at school.

• Schools Standing Up to Racism is a program from the Centre for Multicultural Youth with a suite of resources to support schools to address racism and discrimination, including professional learning workshops to further support the implementation of the program by schools.
• Anti-racism eLearning course, created by the Australian Human Rights Commission, increases participants’ understanding of race in the Australian context and teaches skills to address and respond to racism.
• Upstander Programs, delivered through Courage to Care, are workshops for students that offer practical tools to stand up against racism, bullying and prejudice, and empower participants to take positive action – in the schoolyard, workplace and our communities.