Graduate Diploma of Education
Graduate Diploma of Education
The Graduate Diploma of Education allows current teachers, education practitioners and professionals to enhance their skills, research capabilities and expertise in specific areas of educational theory and practice. Choose from three specialisation streams: Leadership and Innovation Through a leadership lens, gain theoretical and practical insights to identify challenges and opportunities…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Graduate Diploma of Education allows current teachers, education practitioners and professionals to enhance their skills, research capabilities and expertise in specific areas of educational theory and practice.
Choose from three specialisation streams:
Leadership and Innovation
Through a leadership lens, gain theoretical and practical insights to identify challenges and opportunities in education. Learn to devise effective strategies in response, understand technology’s role in modern learning settings and critically assess contemporary educational innovations.
Inclusive Literacies
Investigate literacy practices, focusing on diagnosis and intervention. Learn to manage reading literacy in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts. Grounded in research on inclusion, leadership and social justice, this course equips you to effect change in program, policy and project design.
Inclusive Education
Employing a person-centred approach, this course develops skills to address diverse learning needs. Informed by evidence-based research and pedagogy, and neurodivergent community consultations, it equips you to assist autistic and neurodiverse individuals, as well as those with mental health challenges.
Learning outcomes
Evaluate evidence-based best practice to drive project-based educational transformation.
Apply innovative solutions to complex educational opportunities and challenges.
Interpret technology initiatives to improve local and global educational practice.
Model inclusive leadership to impact change in a professional learning context.
Demonstrate mastery of the person-centred approach in a diverse range of education contexts.
Use specialised knowledge and skills to design and evaluate inclusive learning environments.
Analyse diverse sources of data to inform and assess stakeholders’ learning across diverse educational contexts.
Career opportunities
You will be prepared for advanced career options within the education profession, in leadership and management, lead teacher, education policy and consultancy, or academia roles. You will have career opportunities within governmental education departments, and local and global non-governmental education organisations.
Potential career paths
Education Lead
Disability Support Manager
Teacher Aide
Consultancy
Policy Development
Education Services
Community Development Project Officer
REQUIREMENTS
Academic IELTS 6.5 (no band less than 6.0) or equivalent.
OR alternative entry requirement may be available. Alternative entry may include assessment and approval of prior study, or successful completion of a readiness assessment.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Torrens University Australia was designed with one purpose, employability. It’s at the centre of all that the university does, with industry relevant courses taught by leading experts. The university has strong connections, offering industry placements with more than 3,600 industry contacts.Built on the strong foundations of distinguished schools and colleges, such as Billy Blue College of Design and Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School, Torrens University is Australia’s fastest growing university. All the university’s undergraduate and postgraduate courses are designed with industry, for industry.With faculties in Design and Creative Technology, Business, Hospitality, Education and Health. Torrens University offers flexible higher educational study options on-campus, online or a hybrid of both.
