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.