Do you have an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) and want to inform teaching practices and students? The 100% online Graduate Certificate in STEM Education can help you unlock your pathway to career success.  

 

Building upon your own foundational skills while gaining a deep understanding of spatial thinking, STEM pedagogical frameworks and inclusion and wellbeing strategies, you’ll gain tools to enhance teaching practices, student outcomes and student engagement.

 

Learn from world-renowned leaders through units informed by evidence-based research from the 
STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) at the University of Canberra. Designed to make you think differently about STEM, you’ll consider what STEM means and how it can look in a school setting. 

 

Tailor your course to you and your interests, with units in STEM Pedagogy, STEM and Design Thinking, Spatial Thinking, and STEM Practices and Learning Opportunities. Through these units you’ll analyse and select optimal STEM and spatial pedagogical frameworks, develop design-thinking approaches to teaching and learn how STEM practices occur across the curriculum in a contemporary educational context. 

 

Aligned with ACARA requirements, you’ll graduate with the tools to foster improvements in teaching, student outcomes and student engagement with a qualification to pursue in-demand specialist roles as a leader of STEM education in your community. 

 

Study a Graduate Certificate in STEM Education at UC and you will:

• Gain a deeper understanding of spatial thinking, STEM pedagogical frameworks and inclusion strategies.
• Develop design-thinking approaches to teaching. 
• Confidently implement strategies to enhance teaching practices, student outcomes and engagement.
• Learn how STEM practices occur across the curriculum in a contemporary educational context.
• Appropriately analyse and select optimal STEM and spatial pedagogical frameworks.