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Writing retreats are usually offered twice per year. For the latest information, visit the Writing Retreat section on the CTL website or contact [email protected]

The Language Centre also offers some writing retreats and writing and reading marathons through its Writing Lab. Contact Selene at [email protected] to obtain the latest dates and information, or read more here. 

Yes! Please contact the CTL advisor in your faculty for help. Click here to find out whom to contact. 

The CTL offers Elsabé Daneel's communication workshop for lecturers three times per year. For more information, contact [email protected] and read here.

The Language Centre's Comms Lab offers various short courses aimed at improving written and oral communication skills. For more information, contact Michelle at [email protected] or visit this page.

There is an institutional guideline called Duties and Responsibilities of Programme Committee Chairs and Programme Coordinators that you can consult. You will find it here.

A conversation with your Vice-Dean: Teaching and Learning will also be of value as each faculty might have different responsibilities attached to this role.

SoTL refers to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. There are various definitions, but in short, SoTL can be seen as a “systematic reflection on teaching and learning made public"(McKinney, 2003). 

McKinney, K. (2003). What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in higher education? Teaching/Learning Matters, 33(1), 6–7. 

You can read more here.

At SU, we have an in-house conference called the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference.You can read more about it here: 

We also offer a Short Course on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Contact [email protected] for more information.

The SoTL Conference is an in-house conference for SU academics and professional and administrative support staff working in TLA at SU. For more information, visit the SoTL website.

The Scholarship of Educational Leadership (SoEL) Short Course is a 12-credit short course, pegged at Level 8 on the NQF. It is offered to SU leaders in education, over a one-year period in a BL mode. The objectives include the following:

• To engage educational leaders (e.g. vice-deans of teaching and learning, programme leaders, departmental chairs, lecturers, heads and staff of units for teaching and learning and for professional academic support services) in scholarly approaches to educational leadership practices.
• To introduce educational leaders to the SoEL literature and its implications for their own educational leadership context.
• To apply SoEL research skills to one's own educational leadership context (such as reviewing literature, formulating SoEL research problems, designing research methods and disseminating results).
• To demonstrate critically reflective practice on educational leadership in the form of a mini-portfolio. 

For more information, click here.

Several training opportunities are available. The first question to answer is what kind of training you are referring to. In terms of teaching, SU offers institution- and faculty-based opportunities for professional learning for your teaching role. A good start is to contact the CTL advisor in your faculty so that they can point you in the right direction. You can also visit the CTL website for a list of opportunities. (Look at the drop-down menu under this page.)

​For any professional learning opportunities positioned within different modes of provision, especially related to digital learning technologies, visit the CLT website: Professional Learning Opportunities (sun.ac.za)

The CTL assists academics with their teaching role. Our mission is to create professional learning opportunities for academic staff in faculties and to be thought leaders in the areas of responsive, innovative and scholarly teaching and learning.  

Please contact the CTL advisor in your faculty for help. Click here to find out whom to contact:

The SU Teaching and Learning Policy describes a reflective practitioner as follows: Reflective practitioners think deliberately and critically about their teaching practice, and systematically review and document their professional growth. To read more about this, visit the CTL Resource on Reflection.

To find out who the CTL advisor for your faculty is, click here.

The CTL offers Auxins, and the Division for Learning and Teaching Enhancement offers LTE seminars. Auxins are lunchtime presentations by academics on teaching and learning innovations in pedagogic practices at SU. For more information, click here​.

During each term, the CTL  organises a Teaching and Learning Seminar, under the auspices of the Vice-Rector: Learning and Teaching, Prof Deresh Ramjugernath, and the Division of Learning and Teaching Enhancement. The seminars aim to promote the scholarship of teaching and learning. SU teaching fellows share their research, innovations and experiences about teaching and learning, and lively discussion follows. For more information, click here.

For any SUNLearn-related questions, visit the CLT webpage and navigate to the Learning Technology Support section: Learning Technologies Support (su.ac.za)

For all questions relating to the CLT studio, telematic services or the different services and facilities offered by the CLT, visit the CLT website and navigate to the Operations, Telematics and Projects page:

Operations, Telematics and Projects (sun.ac.za)

For specific information on the use of the studio and equipment, visit the Operations section on the Operations, Telematics and Projects page:

Operations (sun.ac.za)

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