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ISSUE 9 February 2011
Personalised Learning Plans
Guide to developing Personalised Learning Plans for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students - A professional learning resource (Jan 2011)
This DEEWR document is designed to assist teachers and schools to deliver effective personalised learning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Personalised learning focuses on working with each student, in partnership with student's parents or carers, to develop a plan that reflects the student's goal and current capabilities and includes specific learning targets.
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School-Community Partnerships
Partnerships: The 'School and community: working together' series from What Works
These materials are working documents intended to support partnerships between Indigenous communities and schools. They are based on the notion that 'you can't have a partnership without a relationship and you can't have a relationship without a conversation'. A booklet for school staff has that title, as does one for Indigenous parents and communities. There are also four other leaflets intended to assist Indigenous parents and communities with their discussions.
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Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon
Ardiyooloon is home to the Bardi Jaawi people and sits at the end of a red dirt road at the top of the Dampier Peninsula, 200km north of Broome in the north-west of Western Australia (also known as One Arm Point). Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon takes readers inside the lives of the children of a remote Indigenous community. Created by the One Arm Point Remote Community School’s cultural team and the children themselves, it is full of colourful illustrations and photographs of the students experiencing their world and keeping alive the age-old traditions of their people. Published by Magabala Books. Teachers' Notes are available.
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Leadership
Teacher and school leader quality and sustainability
This Closing the Gap Clearinghouse Issues paper no. 3 by B Mulford discusses the similarity between recent research on teacher and school leader quality and sustainability, and the more broadly recommended policy and practice in Indigenous education and proposes teachers and school leaders are most effective when they: understand what is happening in the broader community and the implications this has for schools (being contextually literate), run their schools in ways that respond positively to their community (being organisationally savvy), act with others, pursue a consistent vision over time, focus on areas they can influence, use evidence to support change and use a range of leadership styles (being leadership smart).
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Transitions
School readiness: what does it mean for Indigenous children, families, schools and communities?
This Closing the Gap Clearinghouse Issues paper no. 2, by S Dockett, B Perry and E Kearney, evaluates the quality of available evidence on strategies for improving school readiness. School readiness for Indigenous Australian children is investigated from the basis of the strengths of all concerned—children, families, educators and communities. Research is analysed and an overview of programs are described.
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Early post-school outcomes of Indigenous youth: the role of literacy and numeracy
Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), this National Centre for Vocational Education Research briefing paper explores the impact of literacy and numeracy levels on the educational gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth. The paper focuses on the early post-school outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people between 1999 and 2007.
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General Resources
The Apology (It's Time)
This music video resource focuses on whole school development of a RAP. created by renowned photographer Russell James in collaboration with celebrated musician will.i.am of the Black-Eyed Peas and Indigenous artist and singer Clifton Bieundurry. It also features singer Ursula Yovich, Hugh Jackman, Prof. Fiona Stanley, Mark Bin Bakar and host of other Australians. Produced following the national apology to the Stolen Generations, the video sends a powerful message in support of reconciliation and calls on all Australians to “move forward together”.
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