Graduate Certificate in Education

Graduate Certificate

The Graduate Certificate in Education is based on principles of active learning and practice-oriented enquiry, informed by professional standards, contemporary theoretical perspectives, and research in teaching and learning.

Key details

Degree Type

Graduate Certificate

Duration

0.5 - 2 years full-time

Course Code

E5N

Intake Months

Feb, Jul

International Fees

$35,656 per year / $17,828 total

About this course

The Graduate Certificate in Education is based on principles of active learning and practice-oriented enquiry, informed by professional standards, contemporary theoretical perspectives, and research in teaching and learning. The course is founded on a key value of personal and collective professional responsibility for the improvement of educational outcomes and environments for learning across diverse settings.

The course aims to be relevant and responsive to the needs of people in a range of education-related roles. You will work in collegial ways and communicate effectively across professional settings to initiate and support change in and beyond your immediate spheres of influence.

By the end of the Graduate Certificate of Education, you will have new professional knowledge and an understanding of key research principles and methods. You will be able to critically reflect on and investigate practice and apply new ideas in diverse educational contexts. You will build the foundational knowledge and skills of rich reflective practice and models for enquiry that can be applied to your work context or specialised area of study to effect change.

We recognise that relationships are fundamental to effective teaching and that the past experiences of students contribute to their capacity for learning. The PG Coursework Program is therefore taught in flexible mode using adult education principles to enable learning in online and face-to-face environments.

Entry requirements

Applicants with higher education study

To be eligible for an offer, you must have:

An Initial Teacher's Education (ITE) degree at Bachelor's level or equivalent qualification such as a Master of Teaching.

Applicants without an Initial Teacher's Education degree:

To be eligible for an offer, you must have:

Completed a Certificate IV or equivalent qualification and 3 years industry or teaching experience.

Students intending to articulate to the Graduate Diploma or Master of Education with a specialisation in Applied Learning are strongly recommended to have completed a Cert IV and have 3 years industry or teaching experience.

What you will learn

1 Explain how the theoretical foundations and practice of education (including various specialisations) have informed and can facilitate developments in educational practice.

2 Synthesise and analyse scholarly literature to evaluate local and international developments in practice.

3 Integrate educational theory and professional knowledge to plan, implement and evaluate a professional enquiry initiative or conduct a theoretical investigation.

Course structure

You can complete the Graduate Certificate of Education requires the completion of 50 credit points. This can be completed either as:

a 50 credit points Specialisation

or

a 12.5 credit point Core and;
37.5 credit points of units from any specialisation or elective units.

You can choose the specialisation pathway if you want to focus on a single area of study , which will be named on your testamur.

Alternatively, you can complete the core and elective option, which allows you to choose from units in any specialisation or from post graduate units offered by the School of Education to build a degree that suits your needs.

If you are starting in 2023 you can find your course planner here. Your course planner gives you a visual representation of your course and will help you plan which units to enrol in and when.

For course planners from previous years, refer to the handbook entry for that year.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Teacher Education courses at University of Tasmania.

71.1%

Overall satisfaction

63.4%

Skill scale

66.7%

Teaching scale

89.2%

Employed full-time

$83k

Average salary

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