ICMS’s educational philosophy is founded on principles that ensures excellence in learning and teaching practices. These principles are embedded across all courses and subjects.
Our Learning and Teaching Principles are:
Industry-focused
Our courses help students develop the contemporary knowledge and skills they need for professional readiness and success.
- Innovation for success is ensured through relationships with industry and scholarship activities.
- All subjects have a combination of industry-focused and current content.
- Modern ways of learning and teaching develop essential graduate skills such as digital literacy.
- Each student has a portfolio to gather evidence of learning and reflection, starting from day one.
Global
All ICMS courses explore international perspectives and intercultural understanding.
- Intercultural experiences start on day one of Orientation Week (O-Week), acknowledging, valuing and incorporating the diversity of students and their experiences.
- Specific subjects have activities to build intercultural and ethical awareness, as well as the understanding for sustainability.
- Graduate capabilities, such as leadership and communication skills, are honed and documented throughout courses.
Connected
Our courses foster links between students, staff, our industry partners and the community. At ICMS, we’re big enough to connect you, and small enough to connect with you.
- We facilitate engagement activities to build connections between knowledge, skills and peers as part of the lesson designs (at least 30% of every hour).
- Connections between discipline knowledge and professional skills are made explicit in every lesson.
- Our default layout in classrooms is table clusters not rows, encouraging collaborative learning among students.
Empowering
Clarity and transparency means that everyone knows and understands what success looks like.
- Every student’s learning journey is supported by our ‘Professional Mentor’ approach.
- Excellence for students and staff is acknowledged through scholarships and awards.
- Policies and procedures are clear, easily accessible and transparent.
- All assessment tasks have clear instructions, standards-based grading rubrics, templates and models.
- Students are encouraged to reach out to their lecturers for help with their subjects and assessments.