Sample task from kit for Aboriginal Students

Task Centre Kit for Aboriginal Students

The Task Centre Kit for Aboriginal Students has been created over several years by teachers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Teachers from bush schools in the Northern Territory and urban schools in Queensland were involved in the original development. The kit has been successfully used with Indigenous students in places as widespread as urban and rural Tasmania, urban and outback South Australia, remote Western Australia, inner city Sydney and parts of the United States of America.

These fifty tasks are only available as this kit. They are not available individually. The numbers in brackets are the corresponding task in the main stream kit. Triangles Galore is not exactly matched in the mainstream kit. It was created as a composite of existing mainstream tasks. Catch The Lizards only appears in the Aboriginal Kit. Aboriginal Cube is titled Pattern Cube in the mainstream kit. A few of the other tasks will have minor variations in text that do not affect the essence of the problem.

Task cards are presented in a different way to the main stream kit. They are A4 in size, their colours reflect the vibrance and variation of the Australian landscape and they are packed in sturdy press-seal bags. The kit also includes a specially prepared Teachers' Manual with hints and solutions for each task.

It was reported by Aboriginal Education workers in the INISSS project (Tasmania) that Indigenous students developed increased self-esteem when the other students were seen to be using 'their kit'.

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