Graduate Certificate of Education

The Graduate Certificate of Education is designed to meet the needs of experience educators seeking professional learning, personal and professional enquiry and intellectual engagement within a specialist area or across a range of specialisations.

The Graduate Certificate consists of four (4) postgraduate Education units from the schedule.

Interested in studying the Graduate Certificate of Education you will need to meet the following requirements:

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Knowledge - Graduates will know and understand:

• The theoretical foundations and practice of education (including various specialisations), and how these can facilitate enhanced pedagogical approaches, curriculum, policy, and student engagement from a global perspective;
• The relationship between reflective practice and professional standards in local and/or global education contexts, and how each can define, validate and enhance learning and teaching;

2. Skills - Graduates will:

• Critically reflect on practice and/or research findings to develop new understandings that can inform sound professional judgment, planning and decision making;
• Apply education theory to specific content and/or pedagogical knowledge to inform and advance learner outcomes and/or systemic developments within their own contexts;

• Utilise educational theory and professional knowledge to design and evaluate programs in different learning and teaching contexts.

4. Communication, Collaboration and Leadership - Graduates will:

• Communicate professionally and effectively across diverse settings and audiences;
• Apply their knowledge and skills in collaborative practice and/or leadership roles.

5. Professional Learning - Graduates will:

• Utilise contemporary literature and professional standards to improve practice and promote constructive and collegial learning in educational contexts;
• Employ appropriate technologies to investigate and share practice with peers engaged in professional communities;
• Be responsible and accountable for their own learning.

6. Ethical Professional Practice - Graduates will:

• Conduct their practice and engage with stakeholders in an ethical, collaborative, professional and accountable manner;
• Understand that, globally, educational professionalism requires ethical standards as well as evidence-based and exploratory approaches to teaching and learning.