Why teach the graduate profile?
UC encourages students to be bicultural, employable, global citizens within their communities and wider New Zealand, with a life-long love of learning and giving.
These skills sit within each curriculum area and are called the graduate attributes. While incorporating the attributes into your curriculum may require a shift in thinking, it shouldnt require extra time to integrate. The attributes can be integrated well using constructive alignment pedagogy and the resources provided on this website.
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Start small rather than not at all
For each curriculum area, the learning outcomes of the attributes can be embedded into the overall structure. It may take a bit of creative thinking at first, but with a few examples, you will learn how easy it is to integrate them into your subject with minimal extra effort. There may be some courses that can only accommodate a couple of the attributes but the goal is to try to include as many as possible to ensure a rich learning experience for our students.
