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BRIDGE Program

The Australia-Indonesia BRIDGE School Partnerships Program connects Australian and Indonesian schools in a structured school partnership to foster international connections and build intercultural understanding.

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About

ABOUT

New partnerships

Each year, 10 Australian and Indonesian schools are invited to join the BRIDGE program to establish a new partnership. Each school can nominate 1 or 2 educators from any faculty to participate in the program and manage the relationship with their Indonesian/Australian partner school.

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Existing partnerships

Each year, 4 schools (2 Australian and Indonesian school partners) that have previously participated in the BRIDGE Program have the opportunity to participate in the program to revitalise their partnership. Each school can nominate 1 educator from any faculty who has not yet completed the Professional Learning Program (PLP).

Criteria:

The school partnership was formed through the BRIDGE Program
The school is interested in reinvigorating the partnership with its current sister school / or / the school would like to be re-partnered with a new school
The school partnership has been sustained for at least 3 years
The nominated educator has not completed the Professional Learning Program

Australian and Indonesian schools that have already completed the BRIDGE Program within the last 3 years that have had a partnership breakdown and would like to apply to be repartnered, can also apply for this category,

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AUSTRALIAN CURRICULM

AITSL Standards

Curriculum Connections

The BRIDGE Professional Learning Program has been designed to address the following AITSL Standards:

1.3 Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
2.6 Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
3.4 Select and use resources
6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice
7.4 Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities

The BRIDGE program is open to teachers of any subject and from any level, and has been designed to support the following aspects of the Australian Curriculum:

Cross Curricular Priority: Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia
General Capability: Intercultural Understanding

BENEFITS

Build Connections

Collaborate with educators in Indonesia to create a lasting partnership and build intercultural understanding. Indonesian educators will also travel to Australia for a one week school visit/ homestay.

Professional Development

Gain approximately 10 hours of professional development in areas such as cultural competence, design thinking, digital pedagogies and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Workplace Project

Develop a workplace project with your Indonesian partner school to strengthen education in Indonesia. This can cover a diverse range of themes/topics that align with your school or faculty goals.

TIMELINE

PROGRAM DATES

Virtual Professional Learning Program

The Professional Learning Program (PLP) is a core component of the BRIDGE School Partnership Program, and provides an opportunity for Australian and Indonesian partner teachers to develop their digital pedagogy, share best practice from their schools, consolidate and integrate ideas into a partnership plan and test collaboration during the Indonesian educator school visit to Australia.

Prior to the Professional Learning Program there is an optional 1-1 online introduction between the new partner schools, supported by the BRIDGE team, and a cultural briefing for the Australian educators on the schooling system in Indonesia. The Professional Learning Program is also supported by the Professional Learning Journal, which is a hard copy (digital copy available) journal sent to participating educators with supporting exercises and resources alongside the online program.

*Please note that the timeline below is for Australian schools. Indonesian schools will have additional briefing sessions which can be viewed when the Bahasa Indonesia tab is selected.

1 - 13 Aug 2024

1-1 MEETING WITH PARTNER SCHOOL (OPTIONAL)

30 minute meeting with partner school.

Various dates and times will be available, in the afternoons to accommodate time zone differences.

7 Aug 2024

ABOUT INDONESIAS SCHOOLING SYSTEM (OPTIONAL)