La Trobe University

Graduate Certificate in Education (Language and Literacy)

Get the language and literacy skills you need to advance your career through La Trobe's Graduate Certificate in Education (Language and Literacy). Delivered fully online, this program is designed to empower educators, speech pathologists and psychologists to improve literacy outcomes for students and clients through evidence-based practices. Acting as a pathway from our renowned SOLAR short courses, you'll develop advanced and explicit knowledge about language and literacy skills, as you draw upon the extensive experience, research and leadership of academic staff in the School of Education. By completing La Trobe's Graduate Certificate in Education (Language and Literacy), you will: explore the structure and development of oral language for early reading instruction, and unpack linguistic concepts that define the English writing system for teaching, reading and spelling learn how to evaluate theoretical models of reading and writing proficiency, and apply cognitive science principles to instructional design for language and literacy teaching discover how to design effective instructional strategies using multi-tiered systems of support, and utilise standardised and non-standardised screening and diagnostic monitoring tools understand how to design, deliver and evaluate classroom instruction based on assessment data.