Graduate Certificate in Education (Trauma-Aware Education)
Graduate Certificate in Education (Trauma-Aware Education)
Highlights Build your capability to support learners who are living with the outcomes of complex trauma. Ideal for teachers in schools or early childhood education and care services, or other professionals. Equips graduates to lead a trauma-aware response in a range of workplace settings. Learn today, use tomorrow with our…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Highlights
- Build your capability to support learners who are living with the outcomes of complex trauma.
- Ideal for teachers in schools or early childhood education and care services, or other professionals.
- Equips graduates to lead a trauma-aware response in a range of workplace settings.
- Learn today, use tomorrow with our real-world courses.
- You can choose to specialise in this area or choose option units across a range of topics.
The Graduate Certificate in Education (Trauma-aware Education) will equip you to:
- develop deep understandings of the impact of complex developmental trauma on child and adolescent development and the learner’s experience of education.
- understand the impact of complex development trauma on types or groups of learners, and what can be done to address this impact.
- build a toolkit of ideas, resources and capacities to support your leadership in trauma-aware education in your current or future work context.
Why choose this course?
The Graduate Certificate in Education (Trauma-Aware Education) equips graduates to support learners in schools and early childhood settings who are living with the outcomes of complex developmental trauma.
This course is the first of its kind in Australia and is designed to align with a growing national and global movement in trauma-aware education.
If you are a school or early childhood educator, or other professional, you can deepen your knowledge and skills in trauma-aware education and your capacity to lead a trauma-aware response in a range of work settings.
Learn from the best
Renowned expert and national leader in trauma-aware education, Dr Judith Howard, will lead a passionate and informed teaching team to deliver the specialisation.
Careers and outcomes
Graduates will be able to put their capabilities into practice in many ways, including:
- School or early childhood practitioners can develop their capacities to lead a trauma-aware education response at their sites.
- Education leaders in districts, regions, dioceses, or other entities can develop their capacities to lead a systemic response in trauma-aware education.
- Other practitioners from support organisations or government agencies can develop their capacity to work from a trauma-aware focus with schools, early childhood services and education systems.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Study at The University of Queensland. Learn with leading academics in world-class facilities and join the most employable graduates in the state. At UQ you’ll benefit from flexible study options, field trips, lab work, industry placements, research experience, and online study in Brisbane, Australia.
