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Professional Certificate in Education (Autism Spectrum Conditions) (PR-EDASC) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
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About this course
- Overview
- Entry and participation requirements
- Attributes, outcomes and skills
- Course structure
- Further study
Coordinator
Dr Lisa McKay-Brown
Contact
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
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Future students:
Intended learning outcomes
The course would provide participants with the skills and knowledge to:
- Review, contrast and unify perspectives on learning and curriculum approaches for students with ASCs;
- Critically analyse the concept of ‘challenging behaviour’ in relation to ASCs;
- Review and contrast major theoretical perspectives on behaviour;
- Critically analyse intervention practices in relation to trans-disciplinary evidence; and
- Consider communicative functions of behaviour in relation to ASC.
The course may provide participants with practical opportunities to:
- Investigate functional relationships between environment, learning and behaviour;
- Develop a repertoire of instructional strategies that cater for the range of learning needs within ASCs;
- Examine approaches and techniques for promoting positive behaviour; and
- Reflect critically on classroom implications for implementing intervention strategies and promoting positive behaviour in professional practice.
Generic skills
Students should be able to demonstrate:
- commitment to professional and academic ethics and excellence
- ability to set personal targets and plan to acheive them
- highly developed independent learning
- ability to read critically and present material concisely and coherently in written and oral presentations
- skills in observation, evaluation and applying their findings to their own personal situations
Graduate attributes
The Professional Certificate in Education (Autism Spectrum Conditions) should enable graduates to:
- have an in-depth knowledge of the latest research and understandings about students with ASCs;
- initiate and implement constructive change in their school environment regarding knowledge and skills required to work effectively with students with ASCs;
- have excellent interpersonal skills, ensuring their capacity to develop an awareness of the strength and limitations of students;
- have ability to develop pedagogical strategies appropriate to their teaching situation; and
- reflect critically on their teaching, program planning and/or the management of relevant educational programs.
Last updated: 10 February 2024