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After Yalmanbiladhaany: provision of training for Aboriginal women in Central NSW
This Adult Literacy National Project Innovative Project provides customised units of competency from the Community Services Training Package that have been piloted, evaluated and presented as a learning program “Bush Babies” with Indigenous women in central NSW. The project includes the project’s process and outcomes.
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Pdf versions are available here:
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Deadly Bay: Open for Work
An interactive learning resource for young Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people that develops the language, literacy and numeracy skills required to demonstrate employability skills in six industries:
- Seafood
- Tourism
- Hospitality
- Horticulture
- Community Recreation and
- Business Services.
These industries have been identified as providing potential employment options for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander young people. Interactive CD ROM plus workbook and teacher notes.
Editorial details
TAFE NSW Access Division, NSW Department of Education and Training (DET).
Aboriginal Programs Unit, Tantamount Productions Pty Ltd.
Imprint: Granville, NSW, 2001. 142 p. 31 p. + CD ROM.
Availability
Cost
Purchase price:
- $18.49 - Interactive CD ROM & Teacher notes
- $24.84 - Student workbook.
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Interactive Numeracies
This Adult Literacy National Project Innovative project consists of a handbook, seven problem solving tasks and a CD-ROM with accompanying interactive software aims to assist learners from Years 3/4 up to TAFE. It includes:
- tools to allow educators to make connections between home mathematics and numeracies and school mathematics and numeracies
- tasks for small group work
- snapshots of stories from families.
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Cost
Purchase price: $330 (includes GST and postage and handling).
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It's all about you
This Adult Literacy National Project Innovative project aimed to provide a customised vocational literacy program to Indigenous participants with a goal of improving the chances for the participants to seek employment including becoming a registered foster or respite carer or Volunteer with the Pyjama Foundation’. The report consists of:
- a course outline
- lesson plan for each session
- participants worksheets
- extra resources required for the activities
- information on the organisations which have been engaged in the program.
Editorial details
Corporate author: The Pyjama Foundation.
Imprint: The Pyjama Foundation, 2008. 117 pages.
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Moving Ahead
Moving Ahead is a self paced, interactive CD designed to assist Indigenous CDEP participants transition into mainstream employment. The resource is mapped to BSBCMN101A Communicate in the Workplace, a unit of competency in BSB10107 Certificate I in Business. The CD contains:
- Video scenarios and interactive activities to engage learners in authentic workplace communication tasks
- Situations experienced by Indigenous employees entering a mainstream workplace
- Interactive activities related to the video scenarios to develop workplace literacy skills.
Editorial Details
The Learning Workshop Pty Ltd, 2010.
Availability
Cost
Purchase price: $80.00
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Peer tutor 3 numeracy activity tool kit
This video contains essential information and learning strategies directed at improving numeracy. The techniques for becoming a peer tutor are demonstrated. Four profiles are offered: lawn-mowing business, making a poster, in the park and travel. Within these profiles tutors can see how topics such as estimation, time, budgeting, measuring, sorting, volume and map work can be applied to everyday practical situations.
Note: this is only one of a set of resources. Peer tutor toolkits 1 and 2 focussing on literacy are also available.
Editorial details
Imprint: Cairns, QLD: Tropical North Queensland TAFE., 2003. video cassette (53 min).
Availability
- Indigenous Studies Product Development Unit
Tropical North Queensland TAFE
PMB 1
Cairns QLD 4870
Ph: 07 4042 2347 / 07 4042 2480
Email: ispdu.tnqit@det.qld.gov.au
Cost
Purchase price:
- $31.50 (including GST) plus postage and handling for each of the three toolkits
- $32.50 (inc GST) for a set of 4 learning guides
- $29.00 (inc GST) for the set of 4 learning guides unbound or on CD.
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Thinkin Wrong Way, Thinkin Right Way
This resource has been developed to assist teachers and trainers to conduct effective, culturally appropriate adult LLN assessments of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who live in regional and remote Australia. The resource is made up of: an example LLN assessment tool, a cultural and Australian Core Skills Framework Induction Handbook and a DVD that follows a teacher’s first visit to a remote Indigenous community, exploring scenarios that may arise in such a situation. This resource has been customised to assist trainers’ to assess the learning needs and skills of people whose first language is not standard Australian English.
Editorial Details
The resource was developed by The Learning Workshop Pty Ltd.
Availability
Cost
$88.00
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VU20007 Prepare for Employment Indigenous Resource
Based on VU20007 Prepare for Employment from the Certificate I Mumgu-dhal tyama tyit, this resource consists of 5 learner books, 14 listening tasks and a teacher guide that includes ACSF alignment.
Drawing on student focused learning, this resource has been designed with Indigenous learners and their communities in mind to assist with the process of deciding on a career pathway and looking for work.
The resource can be used by a classroom teacher or trainer facilitator and can be used for groups of Indigenous learners within various learning environments including IEP WELL groups.
Editorial Details
Author / Publisher – Chisholm Institute of TAFE.
Availability
- Senior Educator
Workplace Communications Unit
Chisholm Institute of TAFE
PO Box 684
121 Stud Road
Dandenong VIC 3175
Phone: 03 9212 5323
Email: entwined@chisholm.edu.au
Cost
Purchase price: $45.00 GST Inc.
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Working From Our Strengths: Recognising and building Indigenous learners’ literacies through the Training and Assessment Training Package: Resource package
This Adult Literacy National Project Innovative project is a report on a study that sought to understand ways to identify the relevant literacies required for engagement in high level qualifications that have acted as a barrier to Indigenous people’s aspirations.
The project team worked with Indigenous enterprise owners and learners who were undertaking or ready to undertake the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment in the Northern Territory. Together they examined the literacy issues that underpinned the recognition of a range of knowledge and skills and their relationship to undertaking the Cert IV TAA.
Editorial details
Author: Ruth Wallace.
Imprint: Charles Darwin University, 2009.
Availability
Free electronic copy:
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'Working it out': an e-learning resource for workplace communication
This CD ROM is suitable for use by workers employed in manufacturing, transport, mining and general construction industries and who may not be able to be released for off-site training or who work in geographically isolated areas. It is aimed at those who want to improve their language and literacy skills and to develop their computer skills as well, and begins with an introductory session to each section showing computer basics such as using a mouse, dragging and saving a file. A scenario depicting a workplace situation where there has been a breakdown in written communication is offered, with suggestions for improvement. Finally, there are a series of exercises involving click and drag techniques, followed by questions involving understanding and solving problems.
Editorial details
Author: Rizzo, Santina.
Imprint: Melbourne: Adult Multicultural Education Service, 2003. CD ROM.
Availabilty
Cost
Purchase price: $29.95 (inc GST).
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