Principles in Teaching and Learning
The College supports teaching and learning which involves:
- preparing new entrants to the legal profession, by equipping them with sound legal knowledge, the conceptual ability to solve legal problems, practical legal skills, and ethical awareness; and
- meeting the needs of practising lawyers, and law firms, for advanced learning programmes that
- address new knowledge and new concepts at the leading edge of professional practice, and
- support effective law practice management, and the delivery of legal services to the community, and
- providing quality, career enhancing learning experiences for all participants in all programs
The Colleges objectives in teaching and learning fall into three categories:
The College will provide programs that:
- make explicit the core values of the legal profession
- are relevant to professional practice in different contexts
- reflect current law and legal practice
- promote best legal practice
- integrate work-based and academic learning
- enable College graduates to participate actively and responsibly in a diverse and changing profession.
The College will provide programs that:
- are student focussed
- are informed by analysis of student learning outcomes and other data
- use active learning strategies to engage students
- incorporate flexible learning technologies
- provide professional mentoring and support to students
- deliver practical and professionally relevant content
- are well organised and structured
- use assessment practices that support and enhance student learning
- are benchmarked wherever relevant with appropriate institutions engaged in similar academic fields or activities
- are facilitated by appropriately experienced and qualified lecturers with ongoing access to professional development.
The College will provide programs that:
- provide leadership and scholarship in professional ethics
- actively promote the principles of ethical behaviour in practice
- reflect current issues and research in professional legal ethics
- incorporate professional ethics directly or indirectly
- are delivered by staff who are professional role models
- encourage College graduates to be active and responsible legal professionals who contribute to the service of the community and the administration of justice.
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