Accounting Team selected winners of the EMS Faculty Teaching & Learning Excellence Awards 20156/8/2016
Stephen Coetzee, Astrid Schmulian and Cecile Janse van Rensburg were recognized for outstanding teaching and teaching related activities as lecturers who clearly demonstrate that they make a significant contribution to enhancing students' learning experience. Their students are introduced to accounting principles and rules in pre-readings and videos. Their classroom blends didactic explanations of complex principles and rules, including applications thereof, while encouraging interaction of students with each other and with the instructors. This accounting team has embraced the flipped classroom approach, incorporating elements of constructivism in their teaching. If at first you don't succeed try doing what your professor told you to do the first time... On Friday 3 June 2016, we hosted a BootCamp for our intermediate accounting students to assist them in preparing for their mid year assessment. Deloitte kindly sponsored coffee and muffins for the students to energize them for the day. The all-day Boot Camp was inspired by the success of our 2015 Boot Camp and Jackson, M. (2014). Accounting “Boot Camp”. Journal of Accounting Education, 32(1), 88-97. Stephen and Astrid attended the Transformative Power of Teacher Teams course at the Harvard Graduate School of Education between 1 and 3 May 2016. Teacher Teams is a leadership development program for educators in a variety of roles. The purpose of the course is for educators to learn how to work more effectively in a team to address issues of curriculum and pedagogy collaboratively. The participants are encouraged to identify issues and topics that concern them, and to learn how to use resources -- both from within the team itself and from outside experts -- to improve teaching and learning. The Transformative Power of Teacher Teams Institute was developed to help educators understand the many dimensions of teacher teams, the challenging cultural and instructional realities faced every day, and the potential of an individual and a team to transform their institution by focusing their work on the task of improving their practice to improve the success of their students. The exceptional academic achievement of Stephen Coetzee and Astrid Schmulian of the Department of Accounting was recognised when they were announced as team winners of the Teaching Excellence and Innovation Laureate Award at the Annual UP Academic Achievers' Awards function, held on 5 April 2016. Inspired by an International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) teachers' workshop in London and research by Stanford's Prof Mary Barth, Stephen and Astrid introduced framework-based teaching. The team believes students learn actively through observing the lecturers interacting and through their own interaction with the lecturers, with each other and with the material, to think more critically, read more attentively, communicate more precisely – all while growing as independent thinkers and life-long learners. Research informs Stephen and Astrid's teaching and they received funding from the International Association of Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) to support their research. They were the first South African-based authors to publish in Issues in Accounting Education, an A-rated journal in terms of the ABDC ranking list, and have published in other leading international journals on accounting education. They have also co-presented, with leading international academics, accounting education in the Department's course work master's degree. Today, this team of two are jointly ranked eighth on the Brigham Young Individual accounting education ranking for 2015, making a significant contribution to UP's 3rd institutional position in terms of this ranking. - Author Department of Accounting (Source: www.up.ac.za) Many university students who successfully navigate their first accounting course stumble, earning lower grades or failing classes, when they begin taking intermediate courses. Students who previously failed such courses indicated they were not prepared for the rigor of the intermediary courses or that they lacked commitment to put forth the effort required in these courses. IFRS Rookies presented an intermediate accounting boot camp to address this. Prof Jean Myburgh, Acting Head of the Department of Accounting, Prof Stephen Coetzee, Ms Astrid Schmulian, Ms Cecile Janse van Rensburg and Ms Lizette Kotze, staff members in the Department of Accounting at the University of Pretoria, have been ranked on the Brigham Young Accounting Research Rankings for 2014. The Brigham Young Accounting Research Rankings reflect authors and institutions actively publishing in the leading US accounting and related research journals. A summary of the Accounting Education rankings shows the following:
It is also worth noting that although these rankings are for a period of six years Prof Myburgh, Prof Coetzee and Ms Schmulian have only been actively publishing in the US for the last three of these years, namely 2012, 2013 and 2014, while Ms Janse van Rensburg and Ms Kotze are newly ranked. Prof Mybrugh’s research considers the emotional intelligence of accounting students. Prof Coetzee and Ms Schmulian’s research focuses on matters pertaining to the education of financial reporting students on an introductory course to International Financial Reporting Standards. Ms Janse van Rensburg considers the reading comprehension of financial reporting students and Ms Kotze these students’ communication apprehension. - Author Department of Accounting (Source: www.up.ac.za) AE Rookies presented a course on accounting education research to participants from the University of Pretoria, University of Witwatersrand and University of South Africa. This course provided an introduction to research in the domain of accounting education. Highlights of the course included:
The researchers are Prof Jean Myburgh, Acting Head of the Department of Accounting, Prof Stephen Coetzee and Ms Astrid Schmulian. The Birmingham Young University Accounting Research Rankings reflect authors and institutions actively publishing in the leading US accounting and related research journals for the past 20 years. Prof Coetzee and Ms Schmulian were placed 23rd out of 313 rated researchers, while Prof Myburgh holds the 68th spot. It is also worth noting these rankings are for a period of six years of which Prof Myburgh, Prof Coetzee and Ms Schmulian have only been active for two years, namely 2012 and 2013. More information about the Birmingham Young University Accounting Research Rankings. (Source: www.up.ac.za) Two lecturers from the Department of Accounting presented papers at the European Accounting Association Annual Conference in Paris during May 2013. Ms Cecile Janse van Rensburg presented a paper entitled “Students’ reading comprehension of the IASB Conceptual Framework”, while Ms Lizette Kotze’s paper was entitled “Communication apprehension of accounting students: A cross-cultural study”. Cecile was also a guest lecturer at the Furtwongen University in Germany for a week in May. Prof Stephen Coetzee and Ms Astrid Schmulian published an article entitled “The effect of IFRS adoption on financial reporting pedagogy in South Africa” in Issues in Accounting Education, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 243-251. They also attended the European Accounting Association Annual Conference in Paris. (Source: www.up.ac.za Stephen Coetzee and Astrid Schmulian, both staff members of the Department of Accounting, received notice that their manuscript, entitled “The effect of IFRS adoption on financial reporting pedagogy in South Africa”, has been accepted for publication in Issues in Accounting Education. Issues in Accounting Education (IAE) is generally regarded as the top accounting education journal in the world. It is an A-rated journal on the ABDC journal ranking list and the official accounting education research journal of the American Accounting Association (AAA). This is Stephen and Astrid’s second publication in this prestigious journal – a first amongst South African accounting academics. Stephen has also been reappointed for a second term to the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of IAE for the period 2013 to 2015. (Source: www.up.ac.za) |
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