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Meet the Priority Areas requirements
Evidence of Priority Areas
Your program submission must show evidence that graduates will meet all aspects of the NESA Elaborations in Priority Areas relating to:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education (see below)
- Classroom Management
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Literacy and Numeracy
- Students with Disability
- Teaching Students with English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D).
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education
All NSW programs must include a dedicated unit of Aboriginal education study.
For more information read the following policy statement and the Elaboration in Priority Areas in Aboriginal Education.
Policy statement
All ITE programs in NSW must include Aboriginal Education content within one dedicated unit of 0.125 Equivalent Full-time Study Load (EFTSL).
This unit should be designed by ITE providers to meet local contexts and priorities, address the appropriate pedagogical content knowledge that teachers require to teach Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students, and to teach all students about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and languages.
The dedicated unit should not be conflated with more general diversity studies or multicultural education studies, however, should complement the Aboriginal Education content that is integrated across all ITE programs, as required by the NSW Supplementary Documentation: Elaborations in Priority Areas – Aboriginal Education (2018).
Teacher education students who commenced in a NSW ITE program from January 2021 will be required to produce a transcript which clearly states that their program of ITE included the successful completion of Aboriginal Education content within one dedicated unit of 0.125 EFTSL to be eligible for teacher accreditation with the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).