Address
Joondalup Campus
270 Joondalup Drive Perth Western Australia 6027
Australia
CRICOS course code: 034459F
Level of study: Master's Degrees
Summary
Provides an opportunity for motivated professionals concerned with educational practice to undertake advanced coursework in a field of particular interest.
The course provides students with knowledge and understandings across a range of specialist areas suited to each student's needs and choices.
The Behaviour and Wellbeing specialisation within the Graduate Certificate of Education has been developed in conjunction with practising teachers and professionals working with at risk youth.
The specialisation offers an opportunity for teachers and those engaged in education, to further develop skills, knowledge and understanding of behaviour, trauma, resilience and positive psychology. The specialisation is practical and focuses on developing skills in working with young people, especially those from trauma backgrounds, with a view to supporting them on pathways to responsibility. The unit set offers in-service teachers and those working with youth an opportunity to critically assess current trends in behavior management, challenge personal and system wide assumptions about student behaviour, as well as enhance skills in dealing with challenging behaviours and trauma whilst building resilience and wellbeing, within a diverse range of educative contexts.
Learning Outcomes
Analyse key understanding of behaviour, trauma, resilience and positive psychology to generate informed practice.
Critically analyse educational and school approaches to managing behaviour and trauma and building resilience and wellbeing, within a diverse range of educative contexts.
Manage own learning within a collaborative learning environment.
Transmit knowledge and understanding of children and young people in regard to behaviour, trauma, resilience and positive psychology to audiences engaged in education.
Employment opportunities
Graduates will be suitable for careers in a variety of positions ranging from work as teachers in school classrooms, school coordinators and principals, curriculum and policy advisers in departments of education and as advisers to government and other policy makers.
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Mount Lawley Campus
2 Bradford StreetEdith Cowan University (ECU)
Joondalup CampusAll applicants are required to have a Bachelor of Education. Alternatively applicants can have a Bachelor level degree in any other field, plus a Graduate Diploma of Education or a Master of Teaching, with equivalents considered.
Special entry may be considered for students with a Bachelor level degree in another field, or a three-year trained teacher, both supported by extensive professional experience.
Academic admission requirements (Band 8) may be satisfied through completion of one of the following:
English competency requirements may be satisfied through completion of one of the following:
IELTS Academic: An overall band score of 6.5, with no individual band less than 6.0. (Results are typically valid for only 2 years.); TOEFL Paper-Based Test (PBT): Minimum score of 573, including Test of Written English of 5.0 or better. (Results are typically valid for only 2 years.); TOEFL iBT or TOEFL iBT Special Home Edition: Minimum score of 84, with no individual score less than 17. (Results are typically valid for only two years.); Pearson Test of English (PTE): PTE Academic 58, with no score less than 50 for postgraduate standard entry courses. (Results are typically valid for only 2 years.)