Suggested teaching approaches for engaging students

1. Surveys, a strategy to get some background information on students.

2. Online discussions that use icebreakers, strategies to encourage students and staff to get a sense of each other as people.

3. Surfacing and acknowledging the barriers that students face

4. Developing intercultural awareness

5. Embracing student diversity as positive learning resources

6. Drawing students into discussions about their own perceptions and experiences

7. Case-based learning

8. Real world contexts and linkages (making the relevance explicit)

9. Making activites more enjoyable

10. Sharing your own experiences/ stories  of professional works, placements with students etc.

11. Value of hands on experience, work, placements, internships etc.

12. Assessment drives learning, so encouraging good learning behaviours in students

13. Blended learning processes, for hands on experiences (simulations, videos)