Promoting teaching as a deadly profession Yungorrendi First Nations Centre Presentation at Yamaiyamarna Paitya | Teachers are deadly! 2012 national MATSITI conference, July 9-11, Tarndanya (Adelaide), 9-11 July. More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Teachers Initiative.

2. How to make teaching deadly?
Marketing teaching as a career
presented by
A/Prof Tracey Bunda, Simone Ulalka Tur, Jackie Wurm
Yunggorendi First Nations Centre, Flinders University
Yamaiyamarna Paitya
Teachers are deadly! conference
Adelaide, 10 July 2012

3. acknowledgement
to country
We acknowledge the Kaurna people – the traditional owners of the
lands and waters on which the city of Adelaide was built.
Tarndanyunga Kaurna Yerta
We have shelter, food and an income from living on Kaurna lands.
We also have love, care and a sense of being a part of an
extended family made by Aboriginal people and white friends
because we are on Kaurna country. We are grateful. This is an
expression of respect and we view any acknowledgement as a
significant and symbolic marker of cultural protocol.

4. introduction
• Yunggorendi First Nations Centre
• recruiting/supporting/teaching/research/engaging
• over 280 alumni after 21 years

5. outline
1. MATSITI project
“Tellin’ the stories of
teachers; tellin’ the
stories of teaching”
2. reflect on personal and
professional journeys
into teaching
3. staying on the
teaching path
4. recommendations

6. MATSITI / more Aboriginal
teachers project
• “Tellin’ the stories of teachers; tellin’ the
stories of teaching”
• digital / historical archive of Indigenous
teacher education voices
• to engage Indigenous students &
advisers
• encourage students to consider teacher
education as a future career

7. journeys into teaching
• the power of story
• Angelina’s story

8. Atninkarle Apurte-irrerelte-
aneme akaltye-irreretyeke
big mob – together – to learn – in this place

9. journeys into teaching -
reflection
• best promotion of teaching as a career
is being a deadly teacher!
• ACTIVITY: map your teaching career
• to create a conference display

10. my teaching career
Keyword: Keyword:
OR?
OR?
Keyword: Keyword:

11. staying on the teaching path
• keyword/s-> leading to
recommendations
• top 3

12. prompting your thinking for
developing recommendations
• supporting others’ journeys as teachers
• who should take action?
• when should action be taken?
• by whom and who for?
• why action is important

13. recommendations
To promote more Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander teachers
we recommend that…

14. thank you
• Long Way Home – sustenance for your
journey
• www.flinders.edu.au/yunggorendi
• www.facebook.com/YunggorendiCentre