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ISSUE 12 August 2011
Early Childhood Education
Early childhood and education services for Indigenous children prior to starting school
Resource sheet no. 7 for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse, Margaret Sims, May 2011. A discussion of what works in early childhood: High-quality early intervention/education improves children’s lifelong outcomes across all areas—education, health and wellbeing. Early intervention/education is more effective when it addresses children’s and families’ learning needs taking into account the contexts in which they live. Closing the gap in outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians requires a focus on early intervention/education of Indigenous young children (from birth), their families and communities.
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Personalised Learning Plans
What Works Core Issues Paper 10
The What Works This Core Issues paper aims to assist teachers and schools to deliver effective personalised learning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Covers matters such as what is personalised learning, what are personalised learning plans, integrating PLPs into the teaching and learning cycle, four key questions to answer when constrcuting PLPs, and developing and implementing PLPs at the whole school level.
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Mathematics and Numeracy
Papers from the Proceedings of the AAMT MERGA Conference Practices July 2011
Various papers extracted from the Proceedings of the recent AAMT-MERGA conference held in Alice Springs, 3-7 July 2011. Useful papers including some good perceptions of the role of Aborignal Teaching Assistants, eg: Insights from Aborignal Teaching Assistants about the impact of the Bridging the Gap Numeracy Project in a Kimberley School and Making a Difference for Indigenous Students.
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Numeracy, Mathematics and Indigenous Learners: Not the same old thing
This paper begins with two narratives: the first from an Aboriginal mathematician and the second from a non-Aboriginal teacher. The two stories are woven together to draw out the notion of culturally responsive mathematics pedagogy and what this might mean for educators working with Indigenous students in the teaching of Western mathematics to close the two-year gap in learning outcomes
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ACER ConferENCE Papers
An ACER eNews articles based on papers presented to Research Conference 2011 on the theme Indigenous Education: Pathways to success, held in Darwin from 7-9 August.
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General Resources
Honey Ant Readers
A literacy resource for Indigenous students that includes books, pre-reading material and teacher resources. The resources use teaching theories which focus on Indigenous learners and their languages, interests and life experience. A supporting program incorporates activities to assist Indigenous learners to acquire Standard Australian English, with a focus on phonics and grammar. The program teaches reading through Aboriginal English (AE) and teaches oral Standard Australian English (SAE) through songs and rhymes.
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Serpent Tales
A series of plays and comics with lesson plans as part of an Australia-wide campaign to show young people the right way to build respectful relationships
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