TERMINOLOGY

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Angus Mack is an Aboriginal Islander Education officer. He likes to help young students to become more educated. He feels it is very important for future generations.

AIEO: This is the title given to Aboriginal and Islander Education Officer is the term for the same role in Department of Education and Training Schools, Western Australia and for Aboriginal Independent Community Schools.


ATA: This is the title given to the Aboriginal Teaching Assistants in Catholic schools in Western Australia.




Mereki was born in Kamilaroi Country, Gunnedah, at the age of three she was taken away from her family to live with a white family in the Southern suburbs of Sydney. She went on to become an ATA. Read her amazing story.

FAST: ‘Families and School Together’ a program designed to ‘increase the likelihood of the child being successful in the home, in the school and in the community’.


FELIKS
Fostering English Language in Kimberley Schools. The Feliks project is a Professional Development Course for Primary Schools developed by Joyce Hudson and Rosalind Berry of the Catholic Education Office in Broome, Western Australia. It aims to assist teachers of Indigenous students who speak the English based creole, (Kriol), spoken extensively in the Kimberley region. This was followed by a second volume entitled Making the Jump which extends the focus to include Aboriginal English.

FLE: This is the Family Life Education program which was developed by the catholic Education Office in South Australia and introduced at Luurnpa School, Balgo.

LAW/LORE: This is the law and traditional ceremonies that have existed in Aboriginal communities for …… The ‘Benchbook’ developed by the Department of Justice WA has some explanations of different cultural aspects of Aboriginal life including a very good explanation of Traditional Law/lore .
A very good account of the place of traditional law for handling problems at a local level.

NAIDOC: National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration.

Otitis Media: This is a hearing problem that affects many Aboriginal children.

Shame: This link has a very good definition under the heading ‘The Metaphor of a Bridge’, of the word ‘shame’ as it used in the Aboriginal context.

STOP,THINK, DO: Conflict resolution strategy used at Midvale Primary School.