Resources and useful links
Policy and information sheets (details below) have been developed to provide support to schools in responding to the educational needs of students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The information sheets focus on the following topics.
- What cultural and language diversity in education means for students and teachers
- Language and learning
- Effective community participation in schools
- Case studies of effective classroom and whole school strategies
- Units of work to support culturally inclusive curriculum. The units have identifiable links to English and Studies of Society and Environment Years 1-10 syllabus
- Statistics
- Glossary of terms
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Teachers and principals can access Professional Development resources to combat racism through Education Queensland professional networks.
Professional development material:
Provides material for a series of workshops on the following topics:
- Developing understandings of racism, exploring associated concepts and examining some of its forms
- Recognising the nature and extent of racism in Australia today
- Analysing beliefs, behaviours and practices and beginning to explore where these come from
- Developing knowledge of anti-racism strategies and beginning to put them into action
Curriculum material:
Supports teachers who want to engage students in exploring the issues of racism and countering racism. The materials include lesson plans, resource sheets, activity sheets and web activities. The materials or parts of the material may be used with a range of secondary year levels and within a range of syllabus considerations. The material links to the following areas of the syllabus:
- BSSSS Senior Modern History Syllabus Unit 9: Imperialism and Racial conflicts and compromises;
- BSSSS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Studies of Society and Environment Years 1-10 Syllabus Level 5, 6, and beyond 6 Strands Culture and Identity and Time, Continuity and Change;
- New Basics Rich Task: Australian National Identity: Influences and Perspectives
For information and materials, refer to the Curriculum Exchange
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Refugee Community Profiles
Community Profiles, developed to assist service providers to better understand the backgrounds and needs of Humanitarian Program arrivals, can be accessed on the Department of Immigration and Citizenship - Living in Australia website 
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Communities profiled include Bhutanese, Burmese, Congolese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Liberian, Sierra Leonean, Sudanese, Togolese and Uzbek.
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A new multimedia resource kit focussing on refugee students and aimed at teachers, school counsellors and schools has been developed with funds from Education Queensland.
Two community organisations, Communify and the Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma, with Student Services support, have developed the kit in response to requests from teachers for information resources to assist in teaching students and supporting families from refugee backgrounds.
The kit comes in 3 volumes:
- volume one provides background information about refugees;
- volume two provides resources on how to support refugees in schools; and
- volume three provides practical resources for teachers and school counsellors and material to assist school-based support groups.
Student Services encourages schools and districts to access the resources which will be available for loan by term 4.
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The following policy addresses issues related to cultural and linguistic diversity:
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