Professional Certificate in Wellbeing in Education

School of Education

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

The Professional 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 leading wellbeing in education. This program is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of educators to support students and colleagues' wellbeing and resilience, and to lead others to do so. Courses focus on wellbeing, resilience and pastoral care in educational contexts.

• Delivered 100% online, this program allows you the flexibility to learn how you want, when you want, and from anywhere.
• Engage with contemporary approaches to wellbeing, exploring theory and research to understand and apply best practice principles.
• Be challenged to integrate knowledge with your own education practice.
• Gain a new qualification in as little as one year part-time.
• This program is a stepping stone towards further study. Students can choose to continue by enrolling in a Graduate Certificate in Wellbeing in Education.

The Professional Certificate in Wellbeing in Education entails the completion of two 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 Professional 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.