Northern Territory Adult Literacy And Numeracy Best Practice

Literacy and numeracy training programs are conducted throughout the Northern Territory, from major urban centres to remote island communities. Our case studies represent a diverse range of students. Something they all share in common is an identified need for improving their literacy and numeracy skills.

Most students want to gain better pathways to employment and participate in literacy and numeracy training for this reason. The students of our case study programs across the Northern Territory include:

• Disassociated youth aged between 15-19 years of age, living in remote areas
• Arnhemland-based Indigenous youth on homelands and remote communities
• Indigenous administrative employees of a national park
• Adult Indigenous members of remote communities
• Indigenous youth aged 16 years and over, not engaged in schooling for 18 months
• Indigenous male prisoners in a medium security prison
• Indigenous trainees and employees of a large mining company operating in a remote location
• Indigenous students of fifteen private religious schools located in urban and remote centres across the Northern Territory
• Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people, mainly mature-age, who are training to be health workers
• Business administration students, with ages ranging from school-age to mature-age, participating in on-the-job apprenticeships and traineeships, and school-based apprenticeships, in the major centres of the Northern Territory
• Apprentices across a range of fields, including building construction, and
• Local Indigenous youth of remote island communities.

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