Penny Gill
Retired university lecturer
Cape peninsula University of technology,
south africa
Biography
Penny Gill has been a nurse for over fifty years in Cape Town, South Africa. Recently retired as a university lecturer she is taking a gap year before deciding where her next educational journey will lead her. She is a Pediatric Nurse and has been a Nurse Educator since 1986. Her special interests are curriculum design and the use of innovative teaching strategies using educational technology. Since 2008 she has been the Coordinator of an Extended Nursing Curriculum Program at a University of Technology where previously educationally, disadvantaged first year degree nurses complete their first year over two years. This Program has enabled her to spend time with her students in developing various teaching strategies using modern technology to help the students engage with the curricular content using guided constructivism. The students then successfully integrate into the second year mainstream degree program.
Research Interest
Penny Gill has been a nurse for over fifty years in Cape Town, South Africa. Recently retired as a university lecturer she is taking a gap year before deciding where her next educational journey will lead her. She is a Pediatric Nurse and has been a Nurse Educator since 1986. Her special interests are curriculum design and the use of innovative teaching strategies using educational technology. Since 2008 she has been the Coordinator of an Extended Nursing Curriculum Program at a University of Technology where previously educationally, disadvantaged first year degree nurses complete their first year over two years. This Program has enabled her to spend time with her students in developing various teaching strategies using modern technology to help the students engage with the curricular content using guided constructivism. The students then successfully integrate into the second year mainstream degree program.