Courses
Graduate Certificate in Accelerated Literacy
The Graduate Certificate in Accelerated Literacy (GCAL) is a postgraduate course designed to provide high level teacher training in Accelerated Literacy pedagogy.
The course is offered in a flexible mode, a combination of guided self-study through LearnLine (online), and intensive (on-campus) workshops.
Graduates of GCAL can:
- develop high level literacy in Indigenous and other marginalised students in mainstream schooling
- analyse and adjust practice in the classroom to meet the needs of marginalised students
- adopt a critical perspective on pedagogy for Indigenous students
- understand systemic functional grammar in a basic form
- apply grammatical insights to literacy teaching (with an emphasis on teaching narrative text)
- set language teaching goals at the level of discourse
- understand pedagogy for teaching reading, writing and spelling
- understand the need to focus on oral language development beyond the usual notions of form and function
- understand the history that underlies past literacy intervention programs for Indigenous students.
For more information visit the CDU course information page.
Course Contacts
Ms Evelyn Jackson (08) 8946 6845
Dr Helen Harper (08) 8946 6897