Focus Week: Two Way Learning : Across cultures, and classroom practises to support Indigenous and CALD learners

Recorded on the 04/06/2024. This 90-minute webinar was the second of five from our Focus Week: Student Diversity & Wellbeing. Engaging a variety of diverse learners can be challenging. This session provided an opportunity to explore how to use student experience and knowledge to foster learning in others.

Topic

This session discussed techniques to enhance learner engagement and participation through the use of two-way learning models.

By acknowledging and appreciating students’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and knowledge, the classroom can become an inclusive and multi-modal learning environment.  

Through the encouragement of learner participation in the teaching and learning process, and with the use of storytelling and shared experience, all learners can become mentors.

This ownership fosters engagement and has been proven as a mechanism to improve student learning outcomes.

What was covered in the session:

• Two-way learning models
• Learning across cultures
• Learning through storytelling and shared experience
• Classroom practises to support Indigenous and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) learners
• Strategies for enhancing English use in the classroom
• Integrating vocabulary development into industry-specific training

Webinar content targeted towards:

Those responsible for developing or delivering training to a diverse group of students:

• Trainers/Assessors
• Resource Developers
• Heads of Faculty/ Department/Area Managers
• Consultants
• Curriculum Developers/L&D Managers
• Compliance Managers

Webinar duration: 90 minutes

Bio of presenter:

Rachel Leigh Taylor is an Educational Specialist with more than 25 years’ experience in vocational and workplace-based education and training programs.  With a strong background in compliance and quality auditing, Rachel works with RTOs and other Training Providers to develop systems, processes and documents that assist with capture of data and evidence to demonstrate hoe training provision aligns with the curriculum frameworks and meets accreditation and compliance requirements.

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