Professional Certificate in Education (Positive Behaviour and Learning) (GC-PEDPBL) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

The course provides students with the skills and knowledge to:

• Review and contrast major theoretical perspectives on curriculum approaches for students with diverse learning needs;
• Critically analyse the concept of 'challenging behaviour';
• Review and contrast major theoretical perspectives on behaviour; and
• Consider communicative functions of behaviour.

In addition the course provides students with practical opportunities to:

• Investigate functional relationships between environment, learning and behaviour;
• Examine approaches and techniques for promoting positive learning and behaviour; and
• Reflect critically on classroom implications for promoting positive learning and behaviour in professional practice.