translanguaging

This episode talks about the growing issue of language discrimination in schools. Our podcast focuses on ways teachers and faculty can change this problem and how we can bring awareness to it. 

In this podcast, the speakers discuss different classroom techniques that teachers can use to diversify their classrooms linguistically. The speakers suggest class activities that can incorporate students' languages and cultures and encourage all students to participate comfortably in the classroom.

Hi! Welcome to our podcast, Teacher Talk. On this podcast episode we're gonna be having 3 different segments, and all of our guest teachers, Jarred Navarro, Julia Gobes and Kaylee Nawrocki, are going to be talking about how they choose to incorporate multiculturalism and multilingualism into their classrooms.

Our podcast is a reflection of our experience with Tenerife exchange students. We discussed techniques they used to help communicate with the student. The biggest obstacle for us however was the cultural differences that could not necessarily be ‘translated’. In the podcast, we discuss how assumptions in regard to cultural knowledge can be dangerous in addition to the idea that English proficiency does not necessarily ensure knowledge.

The benefits of Translanguaging: This podcast talks about the benefits of translanguaging. For the viewers who do not know what that is, we included a definition with an explanation so that people will understand. After we defined what it was, we discussed how teachers should embrace this skill rather than get angry at it. We showed how the teachers can do this as well. To end it, we gave a little interview with a comedic twist. We feel people remember things more when they laugh so we incorporated humor into our podcast to make it interesting to listen to. Hope you enjoy it!

New research suggests that to meet the needs of Indigenous youth, Australia’s health and education systems must adopt practices that provide cultural safety and positive meanings about Aboriginality.

In this episode, David is joined by Professor Rhonda Oliver, Head of Curtin’s School of Education, and Dr Michael Wright, a mental health researcher and Yuat Nyungar man, to discuss what needs to be done to ensure the wellbeing of Australia’s young Indigenous people is improving.

• How the NAPLAN (National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy) is disadvantaging Australia’s Indigenous youth (02:02)
• What needs to be done to ensure mental health services for Indigenous youth become more effective (08:37)
• Defining why translanguaging is important to Indigenous communities (10:59)
• How cultural safety of Indigenous people is being affected by Western worldviews (15:47)
• Why Australia’s Indigenous youth experience more unfair treatment in education settings than elsewhere (22:42).

Links

• Curtin University: New mental health research draws wisdom from Aboriginal Elders
• National Indigenous Australians Agency: Education
• NAPLAN

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