Responsibilities as an Educator
Saxon Cheng
Currently, I’m a secondary teacher at Maningrida College in West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, and the school has 98% of students who are Aboriginal (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2024). My teaching responsibilities are very different to standard pedagogical spaces as 50% of my Homelands role is teaching a combined Year 5 – 9 class at the College during the wet season. During the dry season, I travel and stay at remote Aboriginal outstations from 1 – 4 days a week. The age ranges are from 4 to 18-years-old and differentiation needs to be executed with culturally safe, adaptive and instructional learning design (Australian Education Research Organisation [AERO], 2024). As an educational practitioner, my responsibilities to the above duties is structured within 3 interconnected pillars: