Message Stick: Strong And Smart Summary

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The accompanying report will exhibit a comprehension of best practices for teaching Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people with references from the “Strong and Smart” documentary. Additional references cited include i-lectures and weekly topic readings nine and twelve. The areas of discussion will include: Indigenous literacy techniques, dialect and correspondence and readiness to instruct Indigenous points of view in Early Child Education (ECE) classrooms, Primary and Secondary schools. The report will also examine how insights from the documentary “Message Stick: Strong and Smart” can be introduced and implemented in future classroom settings.
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This effort helps students gain the confidence to “Mix it with other Kids”. Cherbourg State School supports their students’ positive learning by introducing a variety of literacy strategies which are fun, engaging and educationally effective.
The documentary includes a scene in which a teacher reads a storybook to her class, engages her students and captures their attention. She adds drama to the story by showing the book’s supporting illustrations and real-life items that complement the text’s events; in this case an avocado. This educator adopted this active reading strategy to keep students engaged in an effort to further enhance their literacy development.
This pedagogical ethos is reinforced by Harrison (2010), who states that teachers should read stories and use pictures to encourage learners to learn new words which will support language and literacy development in Indigenous students. This insight highlights the fact that educators should choose engaging activities and picture books that use expressive language to improve literacy