TEAC7156 – Reflective Journal Tasks

Module 1

Subject Convener & Tutor: Dr Michelle Locke

Teaching Team: Phil Devitt
In this week’s module there are 6 tasks.

Choose two (2) tasks to complete as this week’s

contribution for Assessment 2:Reflective Journal.

Students are strongly encourage to read through all

tasks as there are a variety of resources and
information that you can use to build your own
teaching resources as well as information that may be
relevant and useful for Assessments 1 and 3.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Don’t forget to support your

responses with relevant scholarly references or
subject resources
TASK 1:
• What is your cultural identity?
• How do you identify?
• How are race and culture different?
Who we are often changes
with who we are with.
Each person’s identity is made
up of multiple characteristics:
race, gender, nationality,
religion, ethnicity, class, and
age.
TASK 2:

• How have your cultural values changed over time?

Why?
• Which cultural behaviours are traditionally valued in
school?
• How can classrooms or schools become more
culturally and linguistically responsive?
TASK 3 - 3-2-1 Thinking

• Watch the ABC Right Wrongs resource – Chapters 1, 3 and 5 (but watch
the whole resource when you can!)
• Students engage in some 3-2-1 thinking –

3 - facts they've learned,

2 - questions they have, and

1 - professional connection they can make to the information i.e.

how could they implement that information into their teaching?
• Write your responses to the 3-2-1 thinking.
TASK 4 - Read
A Narrative on Whiteness and Multicultural Educati
on

Answer the following:

 What are the things that you value most in life?
 What nurtures you?
 Who are the people for whom you care?
 Who cares for you?
 What makes life worth living?
TASK 4 continued- Express yourself …

• Transfer your ideas from this exercise on to a piece of A4 paper.

You may use coloured pencils, textas, paints … use words, or
poems … or anything at all that expresses the way you feel about
those people and things that matter to you!
TASK 5 - Question your values

Consider a situation in which your values were questioned. This could

have been, for example, a personal experience whereby there was a
disagreement (overt or covert) or perhaps when you were in a cultural
group that was unfamiliar to you.

How did this challenge your own values?

How does this help you to unpack the ‘taken for granted’ assumptions you
might carry into your teaching?
TASK 6 - Values and Whiteness

• How do Values and Whiteness impact on:

• you,
• your teaching and
• your classroom?