All project outputs > Good Practice Guide: Top tips & Resources
The below are tips drawn from regional and national contacts with regards to enhancing the sustainability of curriculum development and student support activities:
- Make use of any modules in the curriculum that allow students to go into schools
- Build relationships with teachers to inform them about the higher education environment
- Use opportunities to gain input from teachers to inform higher education teaching practice or engage teachers with the HE curriculum: for example, through teacher summer schools or teacher representation on HEI learning and teaching committees
- Build relationships with teachers and use teacher secondments to university to gain an outside perspective on teaching style and student support and input into curriculum
- Allow staff involved in context and problem based learning time to conduct sessions and to familiarise themselves with the methodology
- Provide training to staff in the delivery of context and problem based learning
- Build a database of teacher contacts and send them an e-newsletter twice a term, providing information on outreach activities and curriculum developments
- Always welcome proactive school teachers who are interested in advising on development of curriculum or outreach events
- Once materials and resources have been developed they are very easy to use by a number of people. Trained postgraduates can often be used to deliver these events to free up staff time
- Develop positive relationships with the STEM consultant(s) in your local authority
