Experience

Since setting up Michael Michie Consultant in 1999, Michael Michie has been involved in the following projects:

  • organised and ran a workshop for community educators, called "Working with teachers"

  • completed writing of Intercultural understandings in teaching science: A handbook for teachers for the Indigenous Education Branch, Northern Territory Department of Education

  • coordinated land content for the 1999 visit of Class Afloat from Canada

  • wrote sections on 'Natural resources' and 'Property layout' for the Pastoral Management Program handbook for the Top End, with the NT Department of Lands, Planning and Environment

  • wrote materials on Earth and Beyond for year 8 and 9 students to access using the World Wide Web, for the Curriculum Corporation/Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

  • continued to maintain the Indigenous Science Network website and e-mail links

  • attended the 5th UNESCO-ACEID International Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, and presented a paper, "Where are Indigenous peoples and their knowledge in the reforming of learning, curriculum and pedagogy?"

  • conducted research into Indigenous adult numeracy, for Batchelor Institute of Indigeous Tertiary Education

  • undertook a telephone survey of teachers for the Quality Teaching and Learning of Science Project.

    As Principal Education Officer Science with the NT Department of Education, Michael Michie was responsible for

  • preparation of curriculum documents for the NT Board of Studies in science for Transition­Year 10 (Subject Curriculum Statement, Board Approved Course of Study, NT Outcomes Profile, Learning Area Statement), and Stage 1 (Year 11) courses across the learning area

  • assessment and moderation of courses at Year 10, Stage 1 and Stage 2 (Natural Resources Management, Science)

  • advice on policy to government on the learning area.

    Other projects in which he has been involved include

  • Greening Australia's East Point Mangrove Walk and Monsoon Vine Forests of the NT resource kits

  • the NT Department of Education's kits, Window on the Territory Volume 5, on wetlands, and Window on the Territory Volume 6, on mining

  • the Australian Association for Environmental Education's National Professional Development Project, Biodiversity and Ecologically Sustainable Development, presented in distance education mode at postgraduate level and comprising a set of readings and five sets of case studies

  • membership of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education and associate editor of the Science Teachers Association of the NT Journal

  • preparation of interpretative pamphlets on the Channel Island Leprosarium and mangroves, and miniposters on marine threatened species

  • evaluating resources such as the NT Department of Mines and Energy's Subterranean Science and the NT Power and Water Authority's Plugged In and Switched On

  • editing the teacher's notes for the Australian Minerals Industry Council's Ok Tedi: Mining, development and the environment

  • educational advisor to Theo Read's Kormilda Science Project, to produce an educational resource including Indigenous perspectives in an earth science context

  • evaluation of the Science Faculty at Kormilda College

  • with Wet Paper Marine Education Publishers, providing editorial and technical advice on the textbooks, Mangroves in Focus and Marine Studies

  • consultations with a range of organisations including the Curriculum Corporation, ABC Education Unit, Queensland Department of Natural Resources and the Museums and Art Galleries of the NT

  • international experience organising and providing educational experiences with the Man and Biosphere visiting environmental educators (Canada) and with students from the S/Y Concordia (Canada)

    Last updated: 21 March 2000

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