Building My Future(Mark Heiss and Brigid Taylor)

Before we start… Bennelong’s famous girlfriend was?

Exemption Certificates were often referred to as?

With regards to Government Policy, name some differences between “Protection” and “Assimilation”

Name Australia’s first indigenous female Olympic Gold Medallist

Acknowledgement

Video of opening school mass

Our StoryMarist College Pagewood

7- 12 systemic boys school founded in the Marist tradition of St Marcellin Champagnat.

College Enrolment 2013: 651 Indigenous Student numbers growing:

Low SES school situated in the South Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.

ESL – 43%; SWD – 8% College is ably led by innovative Exec and dynamic

principal David Mc Innes

2011 2012 201325 30 43

Our Time Together Examine our school-

wide approach

Examine the formal and informal curriculum

Explore the possibilities

Our School-Wide Approach

Activity 1 – Think, group, share

If TIME and MONEY were NOT a factor in your school approach to Indigenous Education,

what strategies would you implement?

Think about how you could raise awareness around Indigenous issues in your community and promote academic achievement in your students.

Write your list on the paper provided

School-Wide Approach Raised the profile

of Indigenous Culture through exposure – it’s an expectation by all in the school community.

School-Wide Approach Acknowledgement

of Country Ngalangiil

Ngarandhii (We sit down to listen) Visual

Representation through colours, art work and flag

School-Wide Approach Parent meetings

and gatherings Student meetings

and gatherings Immersion

Experience

Our goal is to make indigenous issues and discussions the norm, the “exotic” is gone.

Activity 2 – Partner work Now TIME and MONEY are a factor in your school approach to

Indigenous Education, what strategies would you implement?

Activity 3 - Programming Devise a six month Programme

using the blank timetable provided.

Formal and Informal CurriculumSupport, ACARA

and Awareness

Formal Curriculum Personalised Learning Plans (PLPs) for ALL

Indigenous Students. Targeted Intervention for all new indigenous

Year 7 students – we check lay of land AND After intervention, if the students has not

improved, then; In-class support from the Indigenous Liaison

Officer and Academic Support Teacher.

Cross Curriculum Priorities

ACARA Cross –Curriculum Priorities Aim

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander priority provides

opportunities for all learners to deepen their knowledge of Australia by engaging with the world’s oldest continuous living cultures. Students will understand that contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are strong, resilient, rich and diverse. The knowledge and understanding gained through this priority will enhance the ability of all young people to participate positively in the ongoing development of Australia.

Cross Curriculum Priorities Think; every

subject across the school has to implement these priorities. We have to do it.

Cross Curriculum Priorities History

Aust Curriculum does not mandated teaching colonisation and contact in Stage 4. However we need to teach ATSI history and culture?

Our HSIE Coordinator

Video of HSIE coordinator

Cross Curriculum Priorities Leads me to;

Leave in History curriculum? (not mandated)

Go fully across the Curriculum as ACARA would like?

Do nothing?

Activity 4: How will you implement the

Priority? Discuss the options you have in your

own school context of integrating and addressing this cross curriculum priority in each of the Stage 1 subjects: English Maths Science History

Use the Cross-Curriculum Priorities Sheet provided

Informal Curriculum Boys Education/Outdoor Education

– Retreats/Camps Indigenous Student Meetings Dance Classes Art Classes Cooking Classes Immersion

Informal CurriculumImmersion 2012

Activity 5 You were asked previously to

create a six month programme based on funding and time commitment in your particular context.

Compare your programme with ours.

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

Student Meeting (01/03/2013)

Student Meeting (29/05/2013)

Student Meeting(23/08/2013)

Student Meeting (01/11/2013)

Message SticksOpening Ceremony (22/03/2013; 6:30pm) 

Goodjarga Workshop – Stage 4(22/05/2013)

Art Classes Immersion Year 11 to NT

Goodjarga Workshop – Stage 4(06/03/2013)

Cool Purple Kookas Cooking classes

Goodjarga Day – ALL(23/08/2013)

Camp/Retreat (Dec)

Writing Workshop(12/04/2013)Stage 4: 9-10:30amStage 5/6: 10:30 – 12pm

Parent Dinner – coincide with end of Cooking lessons

  NT visit to Pagewood

EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITIESShare ideas around how we can support our Indigenous students academically and culturally within our schools based on everything you have heard here.

Ideas

Questions and comments