External links

Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc. (VAEAI) 
VAEAI is a state-wide Koorie community organisation that represents the Koorie community in relation to education policy development and strategic programming at the local, state and national levels. VAEAI supports the provision of education and training that reinforces the Koorie community’s cultural identity and increases awareness in the wider community of Koorie culture and aspirations in education and training.

Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL)
VACL is the peak body for Aboriginal Languages revitalisation in the state of Victoria, leaders in the field of language revitalisation, resources development, research, and the archival and development of Aboriginal Language Library and Aboriginal languages digital information. 

Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET):

• Koorie Outcomes Division provides support via its Koorie Education Coordinator (KEC) and Koorie Engagement Support Officer (KESO)
• Languages Provision in Victorian government schools.

Koorie Heritage Trust offers a cultural education service for schools and an Oral History Program and Reference Library

Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum and online

Your local Aboriginal community may be accessible via:

• Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (LAECG) – VAEAI’s advisory arrangements across Victorian regions
• local Aboriginal community members.
• Traditional Owners searchable map, which shows formally recognised boundaries and is updated
• Local Aboriginal Networks and Gathering Places – local networks run by volunteers.
  

First Languages Australia provides advice on offering a local languages curriculum in your school with information linked to the Australian Curriculum and resources from different regions throughout Australia. 

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) – Australia’s only national institution focused exclusively on the diverse history, cultures and heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia

Living Languages supports the sustainability of Indigenous languages and Indigenous peoples’ ownership of their language documentation and revitalisation by building capacity, connecting community and supporting Indigenous voices.

Reconciliation Australia, especially Let’s Talk Languages fact sheet and Narragunnawali Languages Resource Guide

NSW Government Education, Aboriginal Language Programs in Public Schools in NSW – includes information on Language and Culture nests

Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Handbook (2010) – guidance on considerations such as protocols, sharing of sacred knowledge, selecting and evaluating resources and working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander guest speakers and visitors

Please make sure you seek all necessary permissions prior to using these maps.

AIATSIS Australian Languages Map (1996) 
This map attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia. It shows only the general locations of larger groupings of people, which may include clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. It used published resources from 1988­­­–1994 and is not intended to be exact, nor the boundaries fixed. 

Gambay – First Languages Map
First Languages Australia is working with regional language centres nationally to develop a map of Australian languages that reflects the names and groupings favoured by community. The map is interactive and is updated by communities as they require. Teachers’ notes have been compiled to assist teaching about Australia’s first languages across the curriculum.

VACL Aboriginal Languages of Victoria map (2016)

Arthur, B, & Morphy, F (eds) 2019, Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, 2nd edition, Pan Macmillan

Aboriginal Country map (select state, e.g. Victoria).
Explore using the markers on the map which provide further information.

Welcome to Country and Acknowledgments map
This map allows you to find out who the formally recognised Traditional Owners are for an area.

Norman, B 1940, republished 1974, Tindale Tribal Boundaries in Aboriginal Australia, South Australia Museum

8 Aboriginal ways of learning – Aboriginal Pedagogy
'Every place, every People, has its own unique pedagogies. These 8 simple ones are merely a starting point for dialogue. Each school engages in a different way, and produces its own unique frameworks for Aboriginal education through dialogue with the community about local ways of doing things.'

Video: Teacher explains the value of the ‘8 [Aboriginal] Ways of Learning’ framework (AITSL)

Yunkaporta, T 2010, ‘Our ways of learning in Aboriginal languages’, in J Hobson, K Lowe, S Poetsch & M Walsh (eds) Re-awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia’s Indigenous Languages, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 37–49

Knowledge frameworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) Queensland resources

Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL)
Language apps for a number of Victorian Aboriginal languages

Yulunga Traditional Indigenous Games
A selection of games and activities from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies all around Australia. Useful for groups or whole class

Marrin Gamu
This project is gathering versions of Indigenous languages from across Australia. It allows you to record your own song, as a language program activity

Quizlet
Free vocabulary learning tools, flashcards that can have your choice of images and sound files uploaded to them and games to play individually, in groups or as a class

Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc. (VAEAI) 
Useful digital and print resources including the Koorie Education Calendar, Koorie Perspectives in Curriculum Bulletin, links to events and advice for Early Years, Schools and VET, Higher Education and Training

Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL)
Resources including fact sheets with practical ideas for using language and a digital library including images and songs. Some sections require a log in

ABC Education
Free curriculum-linked resources for primary and secondary level

Behind The News – Languages
Current issues and events for primary and secondary students

Classroom resources to engage students with the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages (ABC)

Creative Spirits
Classroom-ready general Aboriginal resources to support teaching of culture and language

Culture Victoria

A collection of stories and images spanning from traditional to contemporary life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and their cultures. Includes stories and images covering land, spirit, art and artefacts

Deadly Story
Online resource to support Aboriginal children and young people with Indigenous-generated content and a focus on Indigenous themes

Miromaa Aboriginal Language and Technology Centre 
An easy-to-use language software program, created by Aboriginal people for Aboriginal people, to digitise traditional languages and create language tools

National Indigenous Television (NITV)
Documentaries, films and series on Indigenous languages

Nyernila - Listen Continuously: Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria

Compilation of Victorian Aboriginal Creation Stories told by Victorian Aboriginal people using local languages

SBS
Television and radio programs on Indigenous languages to view and/or download

Sharing Stories
A digital online project in which young people in remote Indigenous communities are being taught how to produce and upload their own online content

Wunungu Awara: Animating Indigenous Knowledges (Monash University)

3D animations of Victorian and other traditional Australian Indigenous stories

Video: Teaching Aboriginal languages in schools (ABC)
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians discuss both the teaching of Aboriginal languages in schools and the benefits that this teaching offers all Australians

As a member of the Language Team, you may wish to undertake some professional learning. This could include:

School-external opportunities:

• local Aboriginal community and Traditional Owners may be available to share their expertise in language and culture
  
• linguists and Aboriginal language researchers can provide training in finding language resources, reconstructing languages and describing how Aboriginal languages work
  
• workshops, training courses and conferences in Aboriginal languages and pedagogy
  

School-internal opportunities:

• mentoring and coaching may be organised, for example observations and discussion. This may be provided by:
  • qualified language teachers
  • classroom teachers, particularly in primary school
• leading the Language Team
• presenting to staff and students about the VAL curriculum and Aboriginal pedagogy
  

Other professional learning opportunities are provided by:

• VCAA’s Professional Learning Program
• Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc. (VAEAI)
• Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL)
• meetings of the Victorian Aboriginal Language Teachers Association (VALTA)
• conferences and forums such as the national Puliima Indigenous Languages and Technology Conference held every two years.