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TEACHING SCHOLAR: Dr Bernadette Millar, senior lecturer in the Clothing and Textile Department, vows to use the skills she acquired as a TAU Fellow in the supervision of her postgraduate students
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Two academics have completed the Teaching Advancement at Universities (TAU) Programme and have started sharing their newly-acquired skills with their colleagues to enhance teaching excellence at CPUT.
Dr Nomakhaya Mashiyi, Language Coordinator in the Faculty of Education, and Dr Bernadette Millar, a senior lecturer in the Clothing and Textile Department, are now certified TAU Fellows.
The programme is funded by the Department of Higher Education and Training and empowers academics countrywide to be change agents at their universities.
Hosted by the University of Johannesburg, the inaugural two-year long programme consists of contact sessions and online support from supervisors.
The programme’s 53 participants were each required to do an individual’s research project aimed at promoting the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching as a marriage of learning and teaching with research.
“My research study evaluated academic and non-academic support programmes at CPUT’s Education Faculty,” says Mashiyi.
She added that the programme was innovative and empowering.
“We discussed teaching and learning at our universities and our envisaged role in promoting effective teaching and learning.”
She is of the view that each institution should create spaces for the TAU fellows to engage with fellow lecturers on matters on matters relating to teaching and learning.
Millar says the TAU Fellowship is very important for the country’s universities because it foregrounds learning and teaching in Higher Education.
“It was very stimulating to connect with academics from other universities and see the challenges we each face before deciding on how to move forward,” she says.
“I feel very honoured to have been part of the fellowship as I learnt a great deal and have since passed the knowledge to my colleagues and will also use it when supervising postgrad students.”
Written by Kwanele Butana
Email: butanak@cput.ac.za
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