Professional Development

Find out what complex trauma is, how it affects children and adolescents, and what can be done to help

The RAMSR Module is an online and self-paced course with the flexibility to complete the course in your own time. Receive access to expert facilitators for the initial 6-weeks , then access course content and resources for 12 Months. No prior musical background, skills or training is required to engage in or facilitate this program. This course is international time-zone friendly.

Feel empowered to protect your students by identifying and reporting signs of child abuse and neglect. This course will enable you to recognise the signs of child abuse and neglect, and learn how maltreatment impacts on children’s learning and development. It will also help you to understand your role as a reporter.

Become equipped with the right practices to support students impacted by trauma. This 4 week online module is designed for teaching staff and educational leaders who want to improve their professional practice and understand the impact of trauma and how to develop practices for students who have experienced it. It is also for health and social care workers with an interest in teaching children and adolescents affected by trauma.

Produce an action plan to use trauma-informed practices to support students, your colleagues and your school. n 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.

The Graduate Certificate in Education (Trauma-Aware Education) equips graduates to support learners in schools and early childhood settings who are living with the outcomes of complex developmental trauma. This course is the first of its kind in Australia and is designed to align with a growing national and global movement in trauma-aware education. If you are a school or early childhood educator, or other professional, you can deepen your knowledge and skills in trauma-aware education and your capacity to lead a trauma-aware response in a range of work settings.

This e-learning module is designed to help early childhood educators understand and use relational information literacy (RIL) processes to support young children’s learning as they engage in digital play. The e-learning videos and suite of resources introduce the Digital Play 3C Questioning Framework as a tool to develop young children’s RIL skills and provide real-world examples of the 3C Questioning Framework in action.

This website provides an overview of a project which worked with teachers on a Participatory Action Research (PAR) plan. A suite of e-learning modules have been developed and they will walk you through the PAR process and provide you with strategies, tips and resources for schools and teachers who are interested in the benefits of research in their school or classroom.

Using research evidence, this website provides an overview of the project and an e-learning module developed from the research that will walk you through a framework of classroom practices to support participation, communication and belonging in the classroom. The sections in the module housed on this website will provide you with background information to understand the key elements of being a global learner; an overview of the framework and links to strategies and resources that can be put into practice.