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  Core principles  
 
  • Teaching is a scholarly and professional activity.
  • The course is based on student-centred perspectives of teaching and learning.
  • The course organisation and teaching processes are appropriate to the purposes of the course.
  • Assessment encourages and supports the learning outcomes and processes.
  • The course provides for individual differences in participants' learning needs through the use of a negotiated curriculum and a variety of teaching and learning approaches.
  • Teachers are encouraged to reflect on their practice in order to improve it.
  • To change participants' practice it is necessary to challenge and change their conceptions.
  • Participants have expertise and can learn from each other.
  • Participants are acknowledged as mature professionals and skilled learners capable of learning independently and of exercising responsibility for planning and applying what they are learning in the course.
  • The course embraces diversity and embodies a commitment to equal opportunities.
 
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