Slide+7+-+Classroom+strategies+and+resources+you+would+use+to+create+an+inclusive+learning+environment

Slide 7 Planning Page

http://www.suite101.com/content/indigenous-knowledge-systems-a26760

“What Works” project: This link has some great information http://www.ascqld.org.au/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=9eTRh%2FNRbbs%3D&tabid=187
 * __Contribution by Joanna __**

//Ways they learn//
 * //Stories, histories, songs and yarning//
 * //Knowledge stages/processes, navigating mental landscapes, visual records/sites of Law/Story//
 * //Unspoken/instinctive/ancestral knowledge, signing, body language, communicative silences//
 * //Symbols, signs, pictures, imaginings, messages, designs and images//
 * //Knowledge of/connection to land, waters, climate, skies, plants, animals and place//
 * //Non-linear/contradictory/"irrational"/creative ideas, circular logic, indirect processes/management, adaptive capacity//
 * //Holistic knowledge, balance of communal and individual needs, wholes to parts, observation before action//
 * //Kinship, community, culture base, communal governance/knowledge/ownership//

http://8ways.wikispaces.com/

Story Sharing: //Approaching learning through narrative.// Learning Maps: //Explicitly mapping/visualising processes.// Non-verbal: //Applying intra-personal and kinaesthetic skills to thinking and learning.//Symbols and Images: //Using images and metaphors to understand concepts and content.// LandLinks: //Place-based learning, linking content to local land and place.// Non-linear: //Producing innovations and understanding by thinking laterally or combining systems.// Deconstruct/Reconstruct: //Modelling and scaffolding, working from wholes to parts (watch then do).// CommunityLinks: //Centring local viewpoints, applying learning for community benefit.//

http://8ways.wikispaces.com/

Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) are mandatory for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. By implementing an ILP allows both the student and teacher to focus on achievable goals that utilise a student’s way of learning, their aspirations and abilities. The use of and ILP works as a support system that involves the student, teacher and parents who work together to create a working program of achievable and agreed outcomes in education. As //Shillingford (2011) //// states “ //All students are born with unique gifts. Quality teaching depends on knowing how to develop each gift and expect nothing but the highest of quality" http://www.aboriginaleducation.sa.edu.au/pages/Educators/