Online microcredential from QUT for educators to embed trauma-informed practices to support your students, colleagues and school.
Dates
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Duration
10 weeks
Cost
$739
Credit
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Level
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Established
1989
Location
Brisbane, Australia
World ranking
Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019
Before learning
You will have access to our online welcome area where you’ll be able to start conversations with fellow learners and read any announcements or additional information relating to your microcredential including assessment details.
Course
From 3 Oct 2022
Trauma-Aware Education
Teaching students who have suffered Complex Trauma
10 weeks
8 hours per week
Week 1
Why do we need Trauma-Aware Education?
- Getting started
- Why do we need Trauma-Aware Education?
- Why this? Why now?
- What are the costs of unresolved complex trauma?
- Wrap Up
Week 2
How does trauma impact on attachment and development?
- Getting started
- What have we learned from Attachment Theory?
- What have we learned from the ACEs study?
- What have we learned from neuroscience?
- Weekly wrap up
Week 3
How does trauma impact on the education experience?
- Getting Started
- Impact of complex trauma on the education experience
- Impact on living and learning
- Considerations for adolescence
- Developing Resilience
- Wrap up and Look forward
Week 4
What are the intergenerational impacts of trauma on students?
- Getting Started
- How is trauma transmitted across generations?
- First Nations communities
- Other groups of students to consider
- Wrap up and Look forward
Week 5
Consolidation Week
- Assessment One
- Wrap up and Look forward
Week 6
How can trauma awareness shape policy and student support planning?
- Getting started
- Trauma Aware Education
- Thinking about and reviewing policy and practice
- Student Support Planning
- Crisis Management
- Wrap up and Look forward
Week 7
What are the Trauma-Aware Strategies?
- Getting started
- Designing for Trauma-Aware Education
- More Trauma-Aware Strategies
- Mindfulness and brain breaks
- Wrap up and Look forward
Week 8
How do we prepare for a whole-school approach?
- Getting started
- A whole-school/service approach
- 7 Key Processes
- Wrap up and Look Forward
Week 9
How do we improve the systems and support staff wellbeing?
- Getting Started
- Trauma-Awareness in Education Systems
- Personal and professional wellbeing of educators
- Wrap up and Look forward
Week 10
Finalisation Week
- Assessment Two
- Wrap up and Look forward
After learning
Upon successful completion of assessment tasks within this microcredential you will receive your certificate of completion from Queensland University of Technology which can be used as academic credit into postgraduate study.
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