D5 Breaking Down Barriers to the Labour Market Using Technology to Support at Risk Learners to Succeed

1. USING TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT
AT RISK LEARNERS TO SUCCEED
Ms Caroline Hughes & Ms Anissa Jones
CIT Yurauna Centre

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
• We would like to acknowledge the
Traditional Owners of the land, the Boon
Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri)
peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our
respect to their Elders - past, present and
emerging.

3. CIT YURAUNA CENTRE
Image: United Ngunnawal Elders Council members meeting with students from the Yurauna
Centre.

4. CIT promotes and encourages the development of quality educational practices and
strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff and students that supports the
aspirations of Indigenous Australians.
CIT aims to close the gap in educational outcomes through policy and practices that
seek to improve education and training outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people.
CIT has a number of key strategies that focuses on the needs of Australia’s First
Nations. The leading stratagem has been the elevation of the Yurauna Centre focusing
specifically on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural practices in everyday
learning.

5. Yurauna Centre
Yurauna is a community focused multi-functional Cultural Education Centre that brings
individuals together to learn in a culturally safe environment. The Centre is a
gathering place that provides opportunity for people to find real solutions.
Yurauna offers a unique holistic approach working with individuals and groups to reach
their potential by providing the salient ingredient to success – culturally safe learning
practices.

7. 8 WAYS OF LEARNING
‘All learning is interconnected’
(Western NSW Regional Aboriginal Education Team, DEC)
‘We need to learn through culture,
not just about culture’ (Yunkaporta, Tyson
(2009) Aboriginal Pedagogies at the Cultural Interface, PhD
thesis, James Cook University)
Image: Weaving by Ronnie Jordan
References:
https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/92924766-2378-43d9-a4ae-
05d8bccb8865/1/kitty_vigo_thesis_1.pdf
https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/10974/4/04Bookchapter.pdf

8. 8 WAYS OF LEARNING
Image taken from: http://onecountrydifferentvoices.com.au/

9. 8 WAYS OF
LEARNING
• Language, Literacy and
Numeracy supports
• Road Ready and GSuite
• VET Qualifications and Year
12 compliance (BSSS)
• Podcasting and narrative
• Yarning circles
Image: Students participating in Reconciliation Day activities with teacher Chaydin
Reid

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• Students opportunities:
– Weaving (female students)
– Yidaki (male students)
– Language, Literacy and Numeracy lessons
– Storytelling
– Visual Art showcases
– Sports
– Yarning circles
– Presenting Elders and Leaders Digital
Storytelling Project
– Road Ready
Image: Artwork by Yugilla-Myndi Swan

11. CIT YURAUNA CENTRE
Images: Students participating in Road Ready

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Image: Google Site - https://goo.gl/1aTgN7

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14. CIT YURAUNA CENTRE
Resource designed
with: H5P
http://h5p.org

15. CIT YURAUNA CENTRE
Image: Artwork by James Martin and Shiloh
Williams
Certificate II in General Education for Adults and
Year 12 Certificate
Focus:
– Podcasting
– Narrative, identity and art
– Totems
– Aboriginal perspectives in fiction and non-fiction
texts
– Aboriginal history

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CIT YURAUNA CENTRE
Image: Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/244005796

17. CIT YURAUNA CENTRE
Image: Presenting Elders Digital Storytelling Project
Image: Ngunnawal Elders working on a possum skinned
cloak for the first time in 80 years

18. YURAUNA CHILDCARE CENTRE
“As a mother with two small children
(age 2 and 3), having transportation and
childcare being provided removed the
barrier for me to be able to complete my
studies in the community sector.
I am now training other members of our
community in Certificate III Community
Services. It feels great to give back to a
community who supported me to get
where I am today.”
Catherine Law, former student and current
trainer at Yurauna Centre.Image: Yurauna Childcare Centre

19. YURAUNA CHILDCARE CENTRE
“Often the space is about how
children are feeling and how they
are engaging, not just with the
people but also the materials.
Everything in this room is their
space.”
Alicia Flack-Kone, Childcare worker
Image: Yurauna Childcare Centre