Bandiana Primary School
The Bandiana Primary School Inclusion team understands that with almost half of Victorians being born overseas or having a parent born overseas, a multicultural and inclusive environment is essential to student success.
Students develop a holistic understanding of the interconnectedness of world cultures through multicultural events and programs and make connections with other countries through sports and international projects. Engaging with a curriculum that reflects the school’s cultural diversity, students explore the impact of colonialism and study diverse societies, and literature from different cultural contexts is offered in English language classes. Multicultural events celebrate this cultural diversity, exposing students to different languages, customs, and ways of life.
Bandiana Primary School’s inclusive leadership is recognised internationally for global learning and engagement, for sustaining successful international collaborations, and empowering educators and students to become active global citizens.
The school’s exemplary commitment to global learning is ensuring students are immersed in an educational ecosystem that champions inclusivity and cultural understanding.
Glen Eira College
The Japanese Immersion Team at Glen Eira College strongly believe that embedding language in a defined context is crucial for language acquisition. The team’s unique immersion program implements Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to teach science through Japanese, using content relevant to the Victorian Curriculum.
Students explore a range of science topics through the lens of Japanese language and culture to provide new perspectives and challenges to learning. Drawing comparisons to their own languages and cultures, students reflect on how their ideas and values are shaped by their cultural backgrounds.
Networking with other CLIL practitioners in a University of Melbourne project titled ‘Integrating Indigenous Australian Knowledge and Japanese Language Learning’, the team and their students have developed resources to embed Indigenous ways of knowing into their curriculum.
The Japanese Immersion Science Program is empowering students to challenge the monolingual mindset and apply their learning in ways that enrich content with globally relevant language and understanding.
Heathmont College
Heathmont College’s ‘Deepening Engagement with Indonesia and Asia’ team’s sustained commitment to fostering an inclusive Australia and Asia-Pacific region is ensuring students and staff have the knowledge, skills, and intercultural understanding they need to contribute to a globally connected world.
Working to strengthen global competency at the college, they are developing students’ language skills and increasing Heathmont College’s community engagement with Asia. Organising student tours to Indonesia and Malaysia and facilitating international student projects with overseas partner schools, they have integrated international engagement into the curriculum and ensured students’ experience of global connection.
Indonesian language teacher Prema Devathas has led the team’s building of intercultural awareness at the college through the mentorship of new language teachers and the initiation of multiple opportunities for teachers’ cultural exchange and learning. As a dedicated participant in many global youth educational projects initiated by organisations such as the Asia Education Foundation, Prema’s active contribution to the education of young people is ensuring their ability to succeed as global citizens.
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