Teacher's Resource Kit

Start classroom conversations about multicultural Victoria

Victoria's is a multicultural success story. According to the most recent 2021 Census, over half of all 6.5 million Victorians have at least one parent born overseas. We also:

speak 290 languages
have 314 different ancestries
settle around 4,000 refugees in our state each year
see around 10,000 people arrive in our state seeking asylum each year.

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The role of the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC) is to support, celebrate and advocate for our state's multicultural communities, including young multicultural people living in Victoria. One of the ways we connect with young multicultural people is through Victoria's diverse schools.

Cultural Diversity Week resources for teachers

Every year in March, we bring Victorians together to celebrate the colourful sounds, sights, movements and tastes of the state's rich multicultural communities. The next Cultural Diversity Week will be held from 17 - 23 March 2025.

Cultural diversity touches us all, and we want to start conversations about it in our schools and our communities. To support this, we have designed a Teacher's Resource Kit to provide inspiration and assistance to bring cultural diversity to life in your classroom.

Cultural Diversity Week is a celebration of the best of what our multicultural society has to offer, and all Victorians can participate through a variety of in-person events and activities - this includes our state's diverse young people and students!