Work in pairs (one Aboriginal person and one non-Aboriginal person).
Choose a school in your district that you know well as an example to use in this task.
Think about all aspects of the school community you can including:
People: teaching and non-teaching staff, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community members, students (talents, knowledge, attitudes, enthusiasm, power, influence, respect etc)
Materials: resources such as Two-Way English, Solid English, Deadly Yarns, Deadly Ideas, Curriculum stuff, books, yarns, films, videos, paintings, drawings etc.
Write down the things that might help you implement a two-way approach in the first column on your worksheet and the things that might stop you in the third column
Think about how you might make the things that help you stronger. Write down these ideas in the second column.
Think about how you might make the things that stop you weaker. Write these ideas in the fourth column.
Take your strategies to the group and prepare a list of the main ideas.
This task should help you to:
Be prepared to assist schools implement two-way approaches, and
