Sustainability and legacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education and employment - presentation to the final stakeholder forum for the MATSITI project.

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MATSITI: Sustainability and legacy for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander education and employment
Professor Peter Buckskin
Project Director
Dr Kaye Price
Research Associate
Professor Paul Hughes
Research Associate
www.matsiti.edu.au

3. Image courtesy
Kaurna Plains School

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Workshop contents
• Evidence & data
• MATSITI: key achievements
• MATSITI: Evaluation findings
• Successful ITE & employment models
• Next steps

5. MATSITI Objectives
1. Increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander teachers in Australian schools
2. Enhance professional and leadership
capabilities of experienced Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander teachers
www.matsiti.edu.au/about

6. www.matsiti.edu.au/teacher-interviews

7. MATSITI: 3 key outcomes
1. Research and evidence to inform policy and investments
www.matsiti.edu.au/tag/research
2. 60 funding partnerships for recruitment & retention with
education faculties, Indigenous units in schools, school
jurisdictions and universities, advocacy groups
(70% of budget) www.matsiti.edu.au/tag/projects
3. Attraction and career aspirations strategies
‘Teaching as a career of choice for our people’
www.matsiti.edu.au/tag/attraction

8. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people studying teaching degree
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander school students
Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander adults
Year 12 completion
Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people teaching in school
Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people in
post-graduate study
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander teachers
not employed in schools
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people in school leadership positions
Completed teaching degree
Application for employment (teaching) in schools
Changed
course
Exited
from
study or
teaching
Credit transfer
Negotiated entry
Post-graduate
entry
VET pathways /
Foundation studies
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Study
and Career Pathways into Teaching

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Evidence-based policy
Workforce policy and action informed by data

10. www.matsiti.edu.au/ite-retention-completion
Indigenous teacher education
student completion
Average completion rate:
32%

11. 2015 profile
Current
estimate:
3700 Aboriginal
and/or Torres
Strait Islander
teachers
Education

12. Teacher workforce
data and evidence
Teacher education
Employment
School leadership
www.matsiti.edu.au/tag/research

13. Employment 2012-15
Estimate:
3700 Aboriginal
and/or Torres
Strait Islander
teachers
• 1660 teachers in both
• 743 employed but
newly identified in
2015
• 1001 left between
2012-15
• 697 newly employed

14. Teacher workforce research
www.matsiti.edu.au/teacher-workforce-analysis
Fact:
Indigenous teachers are
younger and better
educated than the general
teaching population

15. Indicative employment data
Total estimate:
3700 Aboriginal
and/or Torres
Strait Islander
teachers
Sector
Government 2482
Catholic 159
Independent 17
Unknown 422
State
ACT 76
NSW 1668
NT 33*
QLD 726
SA 151
TAS 80
VIC 94
WA 252* NT government data to come

16. Contemporary
Aboriginal and
Torres Strait
Islander
education policy
• 2010-2014 Action Plan
• 2015-2018 Strategy
• Closing the Gap
Priority Area: Leadership, Quality Teaching and Workforce Development

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Engagement & influence
Effective coalitions and partnerships

18. https://storify.com/MATSITI/ourmobteach-2015

20. 300 projects
& articles in
your state or
territory
www.matsiti.edu.au/local

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Workshop discussion
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
voices in education policy

23. www.scseec.edu.au/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/ATSI%20documents/DECD__NATSI_EducationStrategy.pdf

24. Influencing
policy
Priorities for
workforce reform
www.matsiti.edu.au/tarndanya-declaration
Tardanya:
the name for Adelaide in the language of the Kaurna people,
the original owners of the Adelaide Plains.

25. @MATSITI

26. www.facebook.com/ourmobteach

27. This Project is funded by the
Australian Government
through the More Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Teachers Initiative.
www.matsiti.edu.au/natsiec
info@matsiti.edu.au

28. MATSITI budget expenditure: $7.5m

29. MATSITI budget expenditure
EDU: Partnership grants
RES: Research & evidence
CMS: Career marketing
CON: Conferences
EVL: Evaluation
GOV: Governance
PMA: Project management
LEV: UniSA admin levy