Create environments that foster lifelong learning, ensuring diverse, inclusive learning.
Reflect on, and implement pedagogy that ensures diverse learners needs are met, enhancing student wellbeing and increasing positive learning outcomes.
Implement effective use of technology that supports learning and participation in contemporary school settings.
You will gain the skills for critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation educational contexts, concepts and theories to solve for issues, and justify the decisions you make with confidence. Apply innovative and creative responses to emerging educational challenges. Conceive of, and put forward inventive ways to achieve preferable educational futures.
Evaluate (and seek understanding of) the implications of challenging ethical issues in education, committing to, but not limited to, social justice, human rights, ethics and sustainability in professional practice, scholarship, and research.
You will gain an advanced and integrated theoretical and practical understanding of a specialised area of education with a global perspective. Gain invaluable skills to locate, evaluate, and implement theory to generate reliable data and make evidence-based decisions.
Be able to plan and implement ongoing personal and professional learning. Critically reflect on demonstrating vocational discernment, autonomy, resilience, responsibility and accountability when responding to change.
Show responsive leadership and the capacity to facilitate collaboration between a diverse range of individuals and teams.
Commit to education founded on respect for the rights of all persons, reflecting on how global perspectives of educational practice can encourage inclusivity and cultural competence.
The Valuing Diversity unit is designed to consolidate awareness, knowledge and experience in understanding and meeting diverse learners' needs in educational settings.
The Supporting Students in Difficult Times unit provides the knowledge and skills required to effectively support children and young people experiencing personal difficulties and require social and or emotional support.
This unit engages students in critical reflection about inclusion, critical disability perspectives, difference and diversity, and pedagogy and policy to support Inclusive Education.
In this unit, learn about the digital technologies to support student learning and participation; teacher collaboration and professional learning for inclusion using digital applications, and; innovation and design for inclusion.
When you successfully complete your Graduate Certificate in Educational Inclusion and Diversity, if you wish to take your learning further, you can apply for our Master of Education and receive advanced standing for the units you have completed.
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All of the education subjects were highly applicable. The assignments were designed in a way that each student could focus on their own school or workplace. The general way each assignment worked was to analyse a particular element of the school and present improvements. In my mind, that's exactly the sort of thing a Principal does and what I aspire to.
Dallas Young
Online M.Ed (Educational Leadership) graduate
I believe that the MA in Education has enhanced and improved my skills and I believe I can confidently get a position as a school leader.
Julia Mpoumpis
Online M.Ed (Educational Leadership) student
The content within the course directly relates to my professional life so I use this time to re-read prescribed texts, research or articles that will help to develop my understanding of the unit as well as develop me professionally. I think it is important to model lifelong learning to my staff and students and this is one way in which I can do that.
Aleasa Brink
Online M.Ed graduate and Primary School Principal
I really enjoyed the unit focusing on positive leadership styles and have actually used some of that knowledge to teach my students about different leadership styles in the workplace.
Bethany McQueen
Online M.Ed (Educational Leadership) graduate
There are endless opportunities for continued professional development in a higher education setting for education professionals. At Southern Cross University, our contribution to teacher education and to the profession of teaching that stretches back almost 50 years. Our online postgraduate courses in education have been designed by academics with a wealth of experience and are delivered to students in an innovative learning environment that's intuitive to use and made for digital learning.
In particular, the Graduate Certificate in Education specialising in Inclusion and Diversity is for education professionals, both teachers and principals, looking to progress their careers with postgraduate study that offers the skills, knowledge and confidence to adopt inclusive pedagogy and utilisation of class level good practices and what is needed for a whole-school approach to inclusive education to provide and create access to equitable learning opportunities.
If you successfully complete your certificate of education, you can apply to a Master of Education and gain advanced standing for the units already completed. Our Master of Education students work in a variety of educational contexts around Australia. Below is a snapshot of some of these roles and jobs.
