The South African Advanced Diploma in Technical and Vocational Teaching (Adv Dip TVT) is the product of an initiative of the South African National Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) in association with the University of Free State and Saide who was responsible for the design and the development of the course Modules. This project would not have been possible without the financial support of the European Union. The Advanced Diploma in Technical and Vocational Teaching programme seeks to provide a structured professional learning pathway for current and aspirant technical and vocational lecturers/teachers. The Advanced Diploma will equip them with the knowledge and competences to implement and manage teaching and learning in their TVET colleges effectively and in alignment with national goals.
The overall purpose of the Advanced Diploma is to engage lecturers working in the TVET sector in conversations about what it means to be a quality teacher in a TVET college. Each Module in the programme explores this from a different angle, but for every module the foundational concept is about the type of teacher you want to be. Currently, eleven modules have been produced, and a further five modules are in development. The modules are not intended to comprise a full course, but are instead made available for higher education institutions to select and use as needed. Alternatively, colleges might use them for professional development purposes.
The following modules are available (which are accessible here):
There is also a resources folder containing resources and assets for the modules, available here.
ADTVT Module: Collaboration in Teaching and Learning
This module aims to enable the TVET lecturer to engage collaboratively and maturely in building relationships with peers, business, industry, and students through the facilitation of a range of communities of practice, and to develop a co-operative learning environment designed to enhance knowledge development, teaching, and professionalism.
ADTVT Module: Reflective Practice
This module is designed to assist both those who are new to reflective practice and those who work with it regularly to develop a toolkit of reflective practices that promote the development of expertise, professional judgement and wisdom in teaching, industry and personal life.
ADTVT Module: Psychology of Education for TVET
This module is on the learning that takes place when we learn a technical craft or vocation. It is about the knowledge and skills that we expect our TVET students to acquire in the course of their studies at a TVET college.
ADTVT Module: Managing the Vocational Classroom
This module aims to enable the TVET lecturer to develop knowledge, skills, values and attitudes which promote an effective and proactive approach to classroom management.
ADTVT Module: Being a TVET lecturer
This module aims to provide the TVET lecturer with an overview of what is expected of a professional educator in technical and vocational education and training.
ADTVT Module: Rethinking TVET Assessment
This module is designed to support TVET lecturers in designing professional assessments of and for learning that will enable them to assess their students effectively, efficiently and fairly.
ADTVT Module: From Interpreting Curriculum to Lesson Planning
This module aims to enable the TVET lecturer to engage with the official curriculum and mediate that curriculum in the process of designing actual lesson plans for students. The module has been designed to complement the Adv. Dip TVT module Vocational Pedagogy.
ADTVT Module: Vocational Pedagogy
The purpose of this module is to develop the student’s expertise in working with the theoretical principles of good pedagogy and the broad range of pedagogical options available to them; to enable the student to craft pedagogies that achieve the aims of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training curriculum and TVET stakeholders across different TVET subjects, contexts and challenges.
ADTVT Module: Philosophy of TVET Education
This modules explores the aims, values and beliefs that have shaped technical and vocational education in the past, the tension between technical and vocational education on one hand and liberal academic education on the other, and what this means in the South African context. In particular, the module focuses on the main purpose of TVET and the type of knowledge it emphasizes.
ADTVT Module: Effective Vocational Pedagogy in College-Based Work Integrated Learning
The purpose of this module is to support the development of a good understanding of vocational pedagogy and the application of this in practice. The focus is on TVET lecturers being able to effectively plan and present lessons that incorporate the key features of vocational pedagogy.
ADTVT Module: Effective Vocational Pedagogy in Industry-Based Work Integrated Learning
This module will help prepare TVET lecturers for their own WIL experience, supporting them to become a practitioner in their own area of specialisation. The focus is on TVET lectures using their own WIL experience to explore, collect information and artefacts and to collate and share these to enhance their own transition from the world of theory to the world of work.
ADTVT Module: Mathematics Method
This module will introduce you to some of the most important ideas about teaching mathematics at TVET colleges.
ADTVT Module: Method of Teaching Automotive Repair and Maintenance
The purpose of this module is to equip the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college lecturers with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes on how to effectively teach Automotive Repair and Maintenance in the Engineering and Related Design Programme.
ADTVT Module: Method of Teaching Electrical Engineering Infrastructure and Construction
The purpose of this module is to equip Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college lecturers with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes on how to teach in the Electrical Infrastructure and Construction core learning area.
ADTVT Module: History and Policy of TVET
This module provides the larger picture of how South Africa’s vocational education system is shaped not only by current policy, but also by multiple factors in the past, including previous policy and legislation.
ADTVT Module: The Political, Economic and Social context of TVET
This module examines the relationship between the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college sector and the South African economy, through both the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.