Predac is the SU short course for the Professional Educational Development of Academics in their teaching role. The Prontak/Predac short course is annually presented for newly appointed academics at Stellenbosch University. During this course, participants will, together with other newly appointed lecturers from different faculties, be given the opportunity to reflect on their views, knowledge and assumptions about teaching, learning and assessment within the context of current thoughts on university teaching. Practical and innovative approaches towards teaching and assessment tasks will be addressed throughout the course. National and institutional frameworks which direct Higher Education in South Africa and at Stellenbosch University (SU) will be covered as well. Participants will be challenged to judge how knowledge and policy can be applied in a meaningful way in their own subject areas. They will develop a conceptual framework that will enable them to reflect on teaching, learning and assessment in order to plan and expand their own teaching practices. 

The course also provides a unique opportunity for participants to forge relationships with colleagues from their own faculty as well as other departments and faculties in a collegial atmosphere. In addition, they will be introduced to the institutional culture of SU which will hopefully help them feel at home more swiftly.

​I-Predac sisifundo esifutshane sase-SU esilungiselelwe uPhuhliso lwaBahlohli naBafundi ngokuQeqeshiweyo nangokweMfundo kwindima yabo yokufundisa. Isifundo esifutshane se-Prontak/se-Predac siprezentwa rhoqo ngonyaka ukulungiselela abahlohli okanye abafundi abatyunjwe kutsha-nje kwiYunivesithi yaseStellenbosch. Ngelixa lesi sifundo, abathathi-nxaxheba, bekunye nabanye abahlohli abatyunjwe kutsha-nje abasuka kwiifakhalthi ezahluka-hlukeneyo, baza kunikwa ithuba lokuba babonakalise izimvo zabo, ulwazi lwabo noko bakucingayo malunga nokufundisa, ukufunda nohlolo kwimeko yeengcinga zangoku-nje ngokujoliswe ekufundiseni kwaseyunivesithi. Iindlela ezisebenzayo nezingobuchule ngokujoliswe kwimisebenzi yokufundisa nokuhlola ziza kuqwalaselwa kwesi sifundo sisonke. Izikhokelo zesizwe nezeziko ezilawula iMfundo ePhakamileyo eMzantsi Afrika nakwiYunivesithi yaseStellenbosch (SU) nazo ziza kuqwalaselwa. Abathathi-nxaxheba baza kunikwa umngeni wokuba babe ziijaji zendlela ulwazi nomgaqo-nkqubo onokusetyenziswa ngayo ngendlela enentsingiselo kwimimandla yezifundo zabo. Baza kuphuhlisa isikhokelo esingengqiqo nesiza kubenza babe nako ukubonakalisa ukufundisa, ukufunda nokuhlola ukuze bacwangcise ze bandise imisebenzi yabo yokufundisa. 

Esi sifundo sikwabonelela ngethuba elifana lodwa lokuba abathathi-nxaxheba bakhe ubudlelwane kunye nabo basebenza nabo abasuka kwiifakhalthi zabo kwakunye namanye amasebe nezinye iifakhalthi kwimeko yasekholeji. Ukongeza, baza kwaziswa inkcubeko yeziko yase-SU nekuthenjwa ukuba iza kubanceda bazive besekhaya ngokukhawuleza.