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Teacher of the Year
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Dorothy Carmichael, Casuarina Senior College
Dorothy is highly regarded by colleagues for her knowledge of English as a Second Language theory and practice. She is recognised professionally as a leader and mentor in ESL and English. Her modelling, and sequential, structured explanations to students are particular strengths. Dorothy has developed a bank of ESL curriculum resources over two decades that are now used by numerous teachers. Her expertise and professionalism have made a difference in Darwin schools to over a thousand migrant, refugee and international students and their communities. She works tirelessly helping students maximise their opportunities.
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Early Career Teacher of the Year
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Urban
Louise Knights, Karama Primary School
As an ex Karama student, Louise is an outstanding classroom teacher and role model for students. The wellbeing of her students is exemplified in the exceptional way she interacts with marginalised students in her care. Louise is responsible for the Student Representative Council, organises camps, graduations and volunteers at Breakfast Club, and has a can do mentality. She is able to work with colleagues at whole school and systemic levels, demonstrating accelerated literacy lessons to school visitors, and sharing video footage of her teaching to an audience of 60 at a workshop, modelling the process of constructive, critical analysis that competent teachers practise.
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Amy Drury, Kalkaringi School
Amy has worked at Kalkaringi School since arriving as a trainee teacher in 2008. Using her initiative, she took on a primary leadership role, attended professional development in First Steps and Aboriginal Literacy Strategy and on returning to school, conducted whole school professional learning to build teacher capacity. Staff look to her to provide stability within the Primary administration area and in August 2009 Amy won the acting ST1 position for the remainder of Term 3.
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Support Staff Member of the Year
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Valmai Sloan, Gillen Primary School
Val's main role is to work with students with significant and conductive hearing loss. She works with small groups and often, one to one, to assist these students in their learning. Val is studying to complete a Bachelor of Applied Social Science and the knowledge and skills she has acquired through this course have been used to co-present professional development sessions with other staff members in areas such as behaviour de-escalation. She is a valuable member of the school's Behaviour Management Team and has undertaken full training in Sandplay therapy. As a result of this training, Val has established a widely acclaimed Sandplay room in which students visit and work in cooperative groups to develop social skills and produce visual representations of their Accelerated Literacy texts.
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Kerri-Anne Butler, Tennant Creek High School
Kerri-Anne Butler is a keen member of staff. She is a tutor in many classes and her particular skills enable her to engage with students through the Rural Operations courses. During the past year Kerri-Anne has participated in the Indigenous Leaders Network, Cultures of Collaboration and is studying her Certificate 3/4 as an Indigenous Education Worker. Kerri-Anne is a fantastic Indigenous role model for the students and community.
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Principal of the Year
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Bert Beekhuizen, Nemarluk School
Bert is often called on to do a variety of things above and beyond the scope of being a Principal. He is compassionate and respectful, not only to the students but also to his staff. He takes into account what each individual student needs and supports staff to ensure their needs are being met. Bert attends individual program meetings with teachers and families so that he has a good understanding of each student and provides input and advice into how the school can cater for each child.
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Teaching Team of the Year
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Anula Primary School early years team
Justina Cross, Shanta Vinu, Gill Andrews, Janelle O'Neill-Thorne, Marcia Harold, Deborah Wells, Julie Donald, Kim Leonard-Bond, Janet Murphy, Rhonda Evans, Fatuma Muhudin, Indira Jones, Clair O'Connor, Nadia Gooding, Leon Barlow and Carly Tybell
This early years team have worked collaboratively to develop their knowledge of the Walker Learning Approach philosophy and their skills in the implementation of this teaching pedagogy. They model the school motto of 'life long learning' through their self generated professional learning while developing a whole school philosophy and pedagogy and maintaining the rigour of the Australian Developmental Curriculum framework. This team have become an inspiration to colleagues beyond the school and have willingly welcomed colleagues into their classroom to share their learning journey including Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education students, Top End Group School educators and interstate and overseas Principals. They are the example of a high performing team; one who constantly seeks improvement in themselves to deliver exceptional long term outcomes for their students.
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Trish Whitaker and Rachel Meiyinbara, Warruwi School
Trish and Rachel form the Early Years classroom teaching team at Warruwi School. Trish and Rachel coordinate their programs together and teach with common goals. They have worked together to contribute essential aspects to the School Indigenous Languages and Culture Program and to all aspects of the curriculum. Trish exhibits excellent teaching pedagogy and Rachel supports her with extensive local and cultural knowledge including translation during classroom teaching. Trish and Rachel form an essential part of Warruwi School and are an example of what to aim for as a teaching team.
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School of the Year
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Girraween Primary School
The Girraween Primary School staff and community work together to provide quality learning experiences with the focus on sustainability for students. Rich units of work are developed with meaningful learning activities that develop literacy, numeracy, social, emotional and sustainability skills leading to high educational outcomes. Girraween has a school farm, weed busters group, composting team, zap attackers and work in partnership with Girraween Land Care, Energy Smart Schools and Beatrice Hill Farm. Students, parents, community members and staff all have ownership of the programs leading to a strong sense of belonging and community being embedded in the school ethos.
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Ntaria School
Ntaria School has experienced unprecedented attendance increases this year. Staff continue to provide quality teaching and learning programs in their classrooms, as well as maintaining positive relationships with the students - the strong attendances being a testament to their success in all these areas. Their efforts and diligence are not lost on the community either, who value the contributions being made and, in the words of an Indigenous staff member, 'know that we really care'.
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Excellence in Indigenous Student Achievement
Watiyawanu School
Watiyawanu School is providing excellent education services to the Mt Leibig community. It is a small, very remote school based in the heart of Luritja/Pintubi country. The excellent mix of English literacy and numeracy with local Indigenous language and culture program provides an example of 'good practice' remote school operation.
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