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The Associate Degree in Education Support is a two-year course designed for those who want to make a real difference in education. Whether you are working as a Teacher Assistant, Integration Aide, School Support Officer, or supporting home-schooling, this course will help you build the skills and knowledge you need to thrive.Education Support is a distinctive and essential profession, focused on ensuring access and equity for learners who may experience challenges such as learning difficulties, lack of confidence, or disengagement from traditional education systems.Throughout the course, you’ll build a strong foundation in learning support, guided by core theoretical knowledge and evidence-based practice. With a focus on social justice, inclusivity, and social and emotional learning, you’ll be equipped to foster positive relationships with learners and support them to achieve both academically and personally.The Associate Degree in Education Support is designed to help you become a highly skilled education support worker, capable of making a difference in various educational settings. By completing this course, you will:<ul><li>Develop a deep understanding of educational access and equity, particularly for learners with diverse needs.</li><li>Learn to create inclusive learning environments that foster confidence, motivation, and active participation.</li><li>Apply evidence-based strategies grounded in core theoretical knowledge to support learning.</li><li>Build the capacity to work effectively and collaboratively in diverse contexts, including communities facing geographical isolation, social inequality, or trauma.</li><li>Become a critically reflective, resilient, and lifelong learner, ready to address the evolving challenges of today’s educational systems.</li></ul>

Become the true hero of the classroom with skills to support and empower learners experiencing difficulties. Help those who lack confidence, motivation or who might be disengaged. Make a difference to teachers and learners alike. 

Associate Degree in Education Support

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Technology for Inclusion

This subject provides a range of strategies to cater for students with diverse needs in learning mathematics. The learning needs may include: difficulties directly related to the learning of mathematics, such as dyscalculia; difficulties that are not directly related to mathematics, such as literacy obstacles; or other learning differences, such as those which stem from cultural differences or exceptionality. The range of students also includes those who are gifted in learning mathematics. The subject is based on two justifiable premises: first, that all students are able to engage successfully with an appropriately challenging mathematics curriculum but may do so in different ways; and second, that teachers have a responsibility to provide high quality learning experiences, supported by pedagogical reasoning, to all students.

Inclusive Mathematics

This subject focuses on the theories behind student disengagement and takes a solution focused approach towards re-engagement practices. By the end of this subject, you will have developed a comprehensive understanding of the risk factors that lead to student disengagement, the consequences of disengagement and early school leaving, and the use of data for identification and designing interventions.

Supporting Disengaged Students

The subject will explore the theoretical and practical issues concerned with establishing and maintaining positive learning environments that allow all students to participate fully in educational opportunities. The subject will explore preventive strategies to establish a positive classroom climate in all education settings; corrective strategies to respond to disruptive behaviours in order to maintain a focus on learning; and supportive strategies to address the higher level needs of individual students including discipline/crisis/emergency response for disruptive student behaviour. The content will be studied through an interactive learning process including case studies, role play and rehearsal of appropriate language and non-verbal responses, to link theory and practice in class and individual management situations. Students will develop a Classroom Management Plan to be evaluated, refined and further developed through their later practicum experiences.

Planning for Positive Behaviour

This subject explores the relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous, histories perspectives and cultures. It encourages you to develop an ethical position grounded in critical reflection which will enable you to identify and challenge racial and social injustices in education and more broadly through practice and pedagogy.The subject has four foci which are integrated: history, culture, curriculum, and pedagogy. It considers these foci as they relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, non-Indigenous peoples, educators, administrators, and policy makers. In doing so, it provides you with both a theoretical and practical grounding from which to develop your skills as a transformative educator capable of fostering restorative justice and reconciliation both within and through education.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culturally Inclusive Curriculum and Pedagogy

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