Teaching Students Who Have Suffered Complex Trauma – Module Plus

Course overview

In this Module Plus, you’ll complete an assessment based on your experiences or context that can be applied in your own school setting or workplace. Students who have lived through very difficult or traumatic life circumstances may present challenging behaviour at school and need help to self-regulate emotions and manage their relationships. In this assessment module, you will plan how to support a child or student in this situation to minimise the frequency of crisis events and ensure they are managed appropriately.

On successful completion of the Module Plus, you’ll earn credit for a postgraduate unit (six credit points) that will be applied as advanced standing when you enrol in QUT’s Graduate Certificate in Education or Master of Education.

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Apply your knowledge and understanding of trauma-informed practices to create an action plan for supporting a child or student who has experienced complex trauma. You will evaluate your school's behaviour management policy with the view to encouraging a trauma-aware approach and recommend how staff could develop their awareness of trauma-aware schooling.

Who should participate?

This online module is for participants who have completed the 13 hour Teaching Students Who Have Suffered Complex Trauma learning module.

The Module Plus is designed for participants who want to apply the knowledge they acquired in the first module by completing an authentic assessment that can be used in their workplace.

For Australian educators, this module aligns with the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST):

1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
1.2 Understand how students learn
1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
3.5 Use effective classroom communication
4.1 Support student participation
4.3 Manage challenging behaviour
4.4 Maintain student safety
6 Engage in professional learning
6.1 Identify and plan professional learning needs
6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
6.4 Apply professional learning and improve student learning