- incorporating a task that requires development of a product or delivery of a service for an external client;
- participating in events run by professional bodies, industry, or the local or wider community;
- involving external community members in evaluation, feedback and assessment of student work;
- involving external community members as guest speakers;
- involving external community members as coaches or mentors for individual students or groups of students on particular projects;
- incorporating a task that requires developing a solution to a real problem in the local or wider community;
- requiring student participation in on-line discussion with expert practitioners from our communities;
- supervising students in research activities, including data collection, interviews and site visits that are of value to external communities.
Connections with external partners in teaching, learning and assessment processes link strongly to current workplace and work experiences.
- Students may be taught and learn off-campus during site visits, field trips, workshops or seminars, TAFE courses or units, performances, competitions, events run by professional bodies or industry, activity days in school or the community and exhibitions;
- Students may develop a product (as an assignment) for external use or provide a service that contributes positively to our community as part of their learning activities and assessment;
- Science students monitor activities in a marine park or a local bushland; and
- Students participate in on-line discussion with expert practitioners from our communities.