Putting It Into Practice
Work-based Project
Interactive Ochre is designed to raise your level of cultural awareness and to help you to live and work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in ways that show mutual respect and understanding. Putting It Into Practice is a work-based project that outlines some ways in which you may put your learning about cultural awareness into practice in your own context.
You may be asked to undertake this project as part of a professional development program. If the project is to be assessed against competencies from a Training Package, your presenter will outline the units and elements of competency that you will be assessed against and indicate ways in which this project will assist you to demonstrate that you have met the appropriate performance criteria.
You are asked to apply what you have learned to your work context and to demonstrate your understanding and application of cultural awareness through submitting a report with supporting evidence that relates to an aspect of your own work.
You will need to complete and submit two tasks for your work-based project:
•	report
•	evidence portfolio.

Context
Your work-based project should focus upon an aspect of your own work that involves you in working with ATSI people. You may choose to submit a project based upon your work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as:
•	colleagues
•	clients.

You should focus upon an event or a work practice that is clearly defined and that allows you to collect the evidence that you are asked for below. Some examples might include:
•	design and implementation of a public health campaign in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community
•	planning, promotion and coordination of an event for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
•	incorporation of cultural awareness issues into the practice of ongoing work tasks.

Negotiate the content and the scope of your project with your presenter.

Report
Length: 1500 words
Your report should include the following elements:
•	write a description of your work context including reference to the relationship you have with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
•	write a report on your selected project including comment on each of the following areas. Suggestions and questions are supplied as thought starters.
Rationale for the project:
•	Identify a problem or an opportunity for improvement that is informed by cultural awareness issues that you wish to address.
•	How will your project contribute to the development of an inclusive work and learning environment?
Planning, preparation and promotion:
•	Outline the plans for your project, including information on documented resources and professional support services you use.
•	What strategies will you use to communicate your ideas with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
•	If you choose to communicate through written support materials that you produce, how will you ensure that these are appropriately inclusive?
•	Are there administrative details that you need to address? How will you go about doing this?
Implementation:
•	Give a description of your project, outlining and describing the stages.
•	Are there problems that arose during the project? How did you address these?
•	Refer to what you have learned through Working With Aboriginal People to indicate how aspects of your project reflect the material and how you have used the concepts presented to enhance your project.
Evaluation:
•	What are the outcomes of your project?
•	Evaluate your project in terms of the success of developing an inclusive learning and work environment.
•	Is there anything that you would do differently next time and why?

Ensure that you include evidence of application of the content of Interactive Ochre, indicating how you have included the concepts associated with cultural awareness and inclusivity into your work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. You should make reference to wider research that you have undertaken, either using references supplied in Interactive Ochre or including your own research.

Evidence portfolio
Your evidence portfolio should include supporting evidence for the material you have presented in your report and may be submitted in the most appropriate format. You may include, for example:
•	digital documents such as your organisational access and equity policy
•	minutes of meetings
•	promotional material for an event that your have organised
•	records of an event that you have organised such as interviews or photos. Ensure that you seek permission for the use of these materials
•	excerpts from your reflective journal (or link to your blog if you have used a web-based journal).

If your evidence can be presented digitally, you may include it as appendices to your report. If you wish to incorporate other evidence, you should negotiate with you presenter about the submission details.