Good teaching is getting most students to use the higher cognitive level processes that the more academic students use spontaneously. The blueprint Professor Biggs offered was to focus on what students do. Enhancing teaching through constructive alignment. That is, the teaching needs to counter the continuing assimilationist tendency of education systems. Successful teaching practice depends on the recognition of and identification with Aboriginal aspirations.
Students are community, rather than individual centred.
This flows through to the students being very supportive of each other and sets up a group expectation that they will all succeed. Improving the Teaching of Female Computer Science Students by Borrowing Teaching Techniques from other Disciplines Richard Buckland talked about his observation that talented girls tended to withdraw from Mathematics courses and its implications for teaching. He had already experimented with introducing 'humanities-style' teaching into Computing Science, and received very positive feedback from students, both male and female. His presentation was interspersed with lively discussion of gender issues in education. Suggestions from the group for assessment tasks which meet these criteria were essays, reports and giving students choice in their assessments to best demonstrate what they know, thus giving them more control over the process of assessment.