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ACER Excellence in Professional Practice Conference 2016
ACER Excellence in Professional Practice Conference in Melbourne last week. Ailsa Macfie, Deputy Principal of Tiwi College and Margaret James from HARs enjoyed co-presenting about their collaborative work. This was interspersed with fun hands-on activities, and a few songs and rhymes!
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HAR Interactive eBooks in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands
Learning to read through having fun with interactive text and images. The story is situated in the desert environment of the Ngaanyatjarra learners. A student makes the honey ant jump out of its tunnel while speaking to him! HARs eBooks. — at Ngaanyatjarra Lands.
Read MoreHAR conversation cards act as a stimulus for writing.
Contextualising learning in the environment of the learner enables them to become the authority on the subject, to grow in confidence and to have greater courage and motivation to write about it. Below is a sample of one eager student’s work, using the HAR conversation cards as his stimulus. This student lives in the Gibson desert where the…
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Working with Community
The HARs work with community, learning about their culture, so that we can better provide their children with relevant material. Books that they feel a part of, that retell their own experiences. We are very privileged to be offered these insights and we never loose sight of who we are doing this work for. Can…
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Elders Response to Newspaper Article about Margaret James and HARs
Honey Ant Readers (Pty) Ltd and its director, Margaret James, recently received criticism in a national newspaper and on-line regarding the use of, and the funding for, the Honey Ant Readers (HARs) at Yipirinya School in Alice Springs. Whilst HARs and Margaret strongly deny any and all of the accusations, we considered it far more…
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Honey Ant Readers conversation cards
It has been wonderful visiting schools in the beautiful, wet (yes it’s raining!) Ngaanyatjarra Lands, where we are working with students and staff, using HAR resources. Teacher Chloe used the HAR conversation cards for a writing and illustrating activity. Look at these lovely stories!
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A lovely true story by Margaret James
Excitedly, I have just spent time with a student, R, whom I last saw in 2012. She is now a beautiful young woman with great aspirations for her future career options. I first met Primary School student, R, in May 2012. I was told she couldn’t read. Soon she was having great fun beating me…
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HAR visits Ngaanyatjarra Lands School
We are very excited to be heading out to the Ngaanyatjarra Lands School again next week. The school, which employs around 50 teachers and 20 or more Ngaanyatjarra staff, is a remote multi campus school comprising 9 amalgamated campuses, spread across an area about the size of Victoria. It is a 8,000km round trip for the…
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HAR author speaks at Perth Conference
At the ACAL/ACTA conference in Perth 7th to 11th April, Margaret James spoke about the rationale underpinning the specialised educational resources we developed for young Indigenous learners, the Honey Ant Readers, and why we believe the same rationale can apply to resources for adult learners. She concluded with a couple of songs (despite her loss of…
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