SU Teaching Excellence Awards 2018

The annual Stellenbosch University Teaching Excellence awards will take place during the second semester of 2018.

The awards were designed in 2017 to acknowledge excellent teaching at institutional level and offer an opportunity to value reflective and contextually-aware teaching. The aims of the awards are:

• to show support at an institutional level for excellence in teaching and learning in higher education;
• to generate a cadre of academics who are able to provide inspiration and leadership in teaching and learning in their disciplines and across the institution;
• to generate debate and public awareness about what constitutes teaching excellence for the world as opposed to in the world;
• to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning;
• to stimulate the growth of professional teachers, and
• to generate appreciation of the value of lessons learnt as opposed to only valuing successes.

The awards are offered in two categories: the Developing Teacher award and the Distinguished Teacher award. All staff are eligible for these awards. 

The Developing Teacher award is open to all staff with fewer than ten years, but minimum three years, of engagement with the scholarship of teaching and learning. The minimum duration of three years can be dated from a point in time, as identified by the individual, when they chose to proactively start developing their scholarship of teaching and learning. The award as Developing Teacher may be received once only.

The Distinguished Teacher award is open to all staff with ten years or more of engagement with the scholarship of teaching and learning. The duration can be calculated from a point in time, as identified by the individual, when they chose to proactively start developing their scholarship of teaching and learning. An individual may receive the award as Distinguished Teacher once in a five-year cycle.

The candidate/s selected by each faculty are required to prepare a teaching portfolio with due attention to the criteria in the guideline document (please see link below). The portfolios should be submitted to the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at kcattell@sun.ac.za by Friday 31 August 2018. A selection committee will evaluate the portfolios. The successful candidates will be informed of their selection in Term 4 and will receive their awards at a ceremony at the end of that term. For the 2018 SU Awards the award amount is R25 000 each.

For further enquiries, please contact Dr Karin Cattell-Holden from the CTL (X 3074, kcattell@sun.ac.za).

For additional information:   http://www.sun.ac.za/english/learning-teaching/ctl/t-l-resources/teaching-portfolios/su-institutional-excellence-in-teaching-and-learning