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SU Teaching Excellence Awards 2021
Start: 22/07/2021, 08:00
End: 22/10/2021, 16:00
Contact:Dr Karin Cattell-Holden - 0218084502
Location: In faculties

​Applications for the Stellenbosch University (SU) Teaching Excellence Awards 2021 are currently awaited.

The Teaching Excellence Awards acknowledge outstanding teaching at SU. All teaching staff – permanent as well as contract appointments – are eligible for these awards.

As from 2021 lecturers may apply as an individual or as a teaching team.

The awards are offered in two categories, namely Developing Teacher and Distinguished Teacher. The Developing Teacher award is open to lecturers who can be described as “scholarly teachers":

Reflective practitioners think deliberately and critically about their teaching practice, and systematically review and document their professional growth. Scholarly teachers additionally draw on educational literature to reflect on their teaching practice and professional growth, and move beyond personal reflection to observation and peer review of their teaching.

(Teaching and Learning Policy, 2018:4-5)

The Distinguished Teacher award is open to teaching academics who are “teaching scholars" or “leaderly teaching scholars":

Teaching scholars research their teaching practice and document their professional growth with a view to publishing their findings publicly and contributing to the body of teaching and learning knowledge. Leaderly teaching scholars contribute to the body of teaching and learning knowledge through publication, and provide leadership in the field of teaching practice institutionally, nationally and internationally.

(Teaching and Learning Policy, 2018:5)

The Developing Teacher award may be received once only and the Distinguished Teacher award once every five years.

In accordance with the Teaching and Learning Policy (2018:5), the teaching portfolio is used as the primary vehicle by which teaching excellence is judged. Portfolios may be submitted in pdf format or in an electronic format of the applicant's choice. Assistance with portfolio development is available from the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) advisors in faculties.

Nominees are initially selected by means of an internal faculty process. Successful faculty applications should subsequently be submitted to kcattell@sun.ac.za at the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) by 22 October 2021. After review by an institutional selection committee, the successful nominees will be informed of their selection in the fourth quarter and receive their awards at a ceremony at the end of that quarter.

For enquiries, please contact Dr Karin Cattell-Holden at kcattell@sun.ac.za.​