SSiSTEMIK Masterclass

SSiSTEMIK Masterclasses are designed to be run over 2 x 2-day sessions 5-6 weeks apart.  This allows participants to undertake the cycle of deepening and designing research with time to consolidate core understanding and forward thinking.

Our Indigenous Knowledge experts will take the participants on a journey that highlights their knowledge systems and how that is relatable to each community across the country.  Through place-based learning and sitting circle, participants will deepen their knowledge to design their own research challenge with access to Indigenous Knowledge Experts and Stronger Smarter Research and Impact team members.  These challenges will be taken back to schools and workplaces to improve student’s engagement and outcomes in the STEM classroom.

These Masterclasses are best suited to educators and leaders who are teaching or leading implementation of the STEM Curriculum.  Researchers or people that are interested in learning more about STEM and Indigenous communities will also find this Masterclass beneficial.


ENQUIRE below if you are seeking:

  •   A research pathway in Indigenous Education
  •   Exposure to the current Indigenous STEM research to inform your teaching practice
  •   Culturally responsive ways to engage all students especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students with STEM
  •   Hands on Professional Learning with real implementation outcomes
  •   An opportunity to listen and engage with Indigenous experts in the field of Indigenous STEM
  •   A program that is linked to the National Curriculum (ACARA) and the national Teaching Standards (AITSL)
  • To build your capacity and confidence to teach STEM through an Indigenous lens

Indigenous Knowledge Experts

Jodi Edwards

Nation: Walbunja Woman, Yuin Nation Educator, fish netting, boat making, and possum skin cloaking
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Jodi has been in the field of education for the past 23 years and 19 years within Indigenous education.
She has been involved in many Indigenous research projects of which she has gained hands-on and working Indigenous Knowledges such as fish netting, boat making, and possum skin cloaking. Some of which are on display in the Museum of Australia, Sydney.

Jodi has been involved with Indigenous research in which she is currently working on continuity of cultural practices in the Yuin and Dharawal Nations through her PhD. She has a Masters in Language Education and a Graduate Diploma in Natural Cultural Resource Management which fuelled her passion to share Cultural knowledges and practices for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

She is also an accomplished curriculum writer and developer through her engagement with embedding cultural practices into the science curriculum HSIE and her work with NSW Education Department in embedding Aboriginal studies and ways of doing into their field studies subjects. She has 18 years experience in delivering professional development to educators where her desire has always been to assist educators to understand the importance and benefits of utilising Indigenous Cultural practices as a learning pedagogical tool.

Victor Steffensen

Nation: TagalakaOrganisation: Mulong
Fire Practitioner, Filmmaker and Educator
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Victor Steffensen is an Expert Indigenous fire practitioner, filmmaker, and educator who plays a strong role in environmental and community cultural well-being.

For our students for our people, Indigenous Knowledge (IK) needs to be at the core of Culturally Responsive Curriculums (CRCs) and core of Culturally Responsive Pedagogies (CRP). Victor is a leader in both CRCs and CRPs.

Over time he has worked on Traditional fire (IK) projects in Qld, NSW, VIC, WA, and Tasmania. This important work continues today, driven by the growing number of communities reconnecting their culture with the country through Aboriginal re management. Victor enacts CRPs and CRCs in his course deliveries.

From 2010 he developed the award-winning Living Knowledge Place, a cultural online education site that connects the community to the classroom. The program is based on traditional teaching practices and learning by example, which has proven successful in re-introducing traditional fire and other cultural practices.

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Get in Touch

about our SSiSTEMIK Masterclass , if you are seeking:

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  • A research pathway in Indigenous Education

 

  • Exposure to the current Indigenous STEM research to inform your teaching practice

 

  • Culturally responsive ways to engage all students especially Aboriginal & and/or Torres Strait Islander students with STEM

 

  • Hands on Professional Learning with real implementation outcomes
  • An opportunity to listen and engage with Indigenous Knowledge experts in the field of Indigenous STEM

 

  • A program that is linked to the National Curriculum (ACARA) and the National Teaching Standards (AITSL)

 

  • To build your capacity and confidence to teach STEM through an Indigenous lens