Graduate Certificate of Wellbeing in Education

School of Education

Can you see yourself enhancing student wellbeing in schools? The Graduate Certificate in Wellbeing in Education provides individuals with the knowledge and skills required for educators to become leading professionals in pastoral care, ultimately enhancing overall wellbeing in schools. As contemporary education settings experience unique challenges regarding student behaviour, mental health and wellbeing; it is essential that educators in positions of pastoral care responsibility are adequately equipped to respond to individual student needs.

The Graduate Certificate in Wellbeing in Education is a graduate-level program for teachers, education professionals and associated professions, who wish to gain additional knowledge and recognition as a specialist in enhancing student wellbeing. This program is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of educators to support students' and colleagues' wellbeing and resilience-while leading others to do so.

The Graduate Certificate in Wellbeing in Education entails the completion of four postgraduate courses from a selection of six courses offered by the School of Education, in Fremantle and Sydney.

Courses include:

• EDUC6026 Positive Education: Wellbeing and Student Achievement
• EDUC6055 Building Resilient Teachers and Schools
• EDUC6260 Pastoral Care and the School
• EDUC6077 Leading Mindfulness for Learning
• EDUC6080 Leading Wellbeing in Education
• EDUC6081 Leading Pastoral Care in Schools

On completion of the Graduate Certificate in Wellbeing in Education students can apply for advanced standing into the MEd (Leadership and Management), MEd (Curriculum) or MEd (Religious Education). The amount of advanced standing would depend on the courses completed and the Master of Education specialisation chosen.

Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.