Education Support Qualifications
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These qualifications cover workers in a range of education settings, including public and independent schools and community education settings that provide assistance and support to teachers and learners under broad based supervision. Education Support workers work closely with teachers, collecting and/or developing teaching resources, setting up and operating equipment, undertaking administrative and student supervision duties and participating in teaching activities
Occupational titles may include:
Education support worker, Teacher assistant, Teacher aide, Education assistant (special needs),Education assistant, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander education worker, Indigenous language and culture teaching assistant, Language worker, Literacy worker, Homeland teaching assistant, Home tutor, Support worker (working with children with disabilities).
AATS offers the following qualifications in Education Support:
The Certificate III in Education Support forms the first level of a study pathway through to Diploma in Education Support. It articulates into the Certificate IV and Diploma in Education Support.
Teacher aides have several ways to gain a Certificate III qualification:
- External delivery (self paced)
- Class delivery (Brisbane only)
- A teacher aide is eligible to be funded by their school to gain a Certificate III through a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) pathway. Many teacher aides will prefer to undertake coursework at an earlier stage in their career, but the RPL option is an entitlement under the Department of Education and the Arts Teacher Aides' Certified Agreement 2005.
- RPL option is available for all experienced teacher aides
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The Certificate IV in Education Support is the second level of accredited training for education support workers within the Education Support suite of courses.
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The Diploma of Education Support is the third level of accredited training for education support workers within the Education Support suite of courses.
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Each course requires a certain number of hours of vocational placement.
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