Sharing What You

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Sharing WhatYouve Learned

• Tom Bowers
• Dean Emeritus
• School of Journalism
• and Mass Communication

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Agenda

• General strategies for sharing
• Strategies for sessions here
• Ideas to get you started

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Think about Arrangements

• How many people?
• Their motivation?
• Resistance?
• Time of day (how long?)
• Location and technology

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Choosing Topics

• Cant share everything.
• Strategy for choosing
• What do they need?
• What interests you?
• Whats the easiest?
• What topic would YOU choose?

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General Strategiesfor All Topics
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Whats the Value?

• Why this knowledge or skill is important.
• When and how they will use it.
• How it relates to what they know.

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Engage Them

• We remember 20 of what we _____.

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Engage Them

• We remember 20 of what we hear.
• 50 of what we hear and ____.

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Engage Them

• We remember 20 of what we hear.
• 50 of what we hear and see.
• 70 of what we hear, see and __.

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Engage Them

• We remember 20 of what we hear.
• 50 of what we hear and see.
• 70 of what we hear, see and do.
• 90 of what we hear, see, do and ______.

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Engage Them

• We remember 20 of what we hear.
• 50 of what we hear and see.
• 70 of what we hear, see and do.
• 90 of what we hear, see, do and talk about while
  we do it.

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Presentation Tips

• Tell them.
• Show them.
• Do it.
• Talk about it.

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Specific Strategies

• for
• This Weeks Topics

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How to EditWhen You dont have Time

• Importance?
• What will you say?
• What will you show?
• What will you do?
• What will you talk about?
• Work in pairs or competition

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Math and Graphics

• Importance?
• What will you say?
• What will you show?
• What will you do?
• What will you talk about?
• Work in pairs or competition

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Ethics

• Importance?
• What will you say?
• What will you show?
• What will you do?
• What will you talk about?

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Grammar Smackdown

• Importance?
• What will you say?
• What will you show?
• What will you do?
• What will you talk about?
• Jeopardy

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Libel and Privacy Issues

• Importance?
• What will you say?
• What will you show?
• What will you do?
• What will you talk about?

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Alternative Story Forms

• Importance?
• What will you say?
• What will you show?
• What will you do?
• What will you talk about?

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Taking Care of Yourself

• Importance?
• What will you say?
• What will you show?
• What will you do?
• What will you talk about?

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Web Essentials and Editing

• Importance?
• What will you say?
• What will you show?
• What will you do?
• What will you talk about?

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Editing Projects

• Importance?
• What will you say?
• What will you show?
• What will you do?
• What will you talk about?
• Work in pairs or competition

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Managing People

• Importance?
• What will you say?
• What will you show?
• What will you do?
• What will you talk about?
• Work in pairs or competition

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Mapleview Farm

• Importance?
• What did you learn?

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Questions and Ideas
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Teaching for Pay

• Adjunct or Part-time
• Full-time

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Strategies forAdjunct Teaching
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Getting Hired

• Find names of schools in area.
• Write dean, director or chair of journalism
  program.
• Include résumé. (Curriculum Vitae)
• Show that you understand what teaching entails

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Your Course Assignment

• Likely to be existing course.
• Ask for syllabus.
• Expect to follow existing course objectives.
• Use your own strategies.

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Create a Course

• Objectives
• Logical arrangement of topics
• For a semester or quarter
• Creating and evaluating assignments

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Show your

• Knowledge of the subject
• Experience
• Ability to help others learn the subject and its
  skills.
• Availability to students
• Office hours
• Email contact

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Find Out

• Grading philosophy of the school.
• Your classroom and its capabilities.
• Technical support from the school.

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Teaching Tips

• Get to know your students ASAP.
• Names
• Something about them.
• Start each class with preview agenda.
• Value and importance
• End each class with summary.

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Teaching Tips

• Engage students as much as possible.
• Ask questions.
• Stimulate discussion.
• Show enthusiasm. Show that you are excited about
  the subject and your students.

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Teaching Tips

• Have students work together.
• Collaborate on assignments.
• Grade each other.
• Give them lots of practice. Return assignments
  promptly.
• Create realistic assignments. Use deadline
  pressure.

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Teaching Tips

• Allow students to practice and make mistakes
  before you grade them.
• Tell them how you will evaluate their work.
• Show exemplary work of others.

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Teaching Tips

• Ask for feedback after 3-4 weeks.
• Adjust if appropriate.
• Explain why you cannot adjust.

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Be Prepared For

• Students who dont want to be journalists.
• Students with weak writing skills.
• Students who dont read print newspapers.
• Students who are late to class.
• Students who want to surf the Web.

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Be Prepared For

• Elation of coaching students who get the point
  you want them to learn.
• Immense satisfaction of shaping lives and careers.

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What about Full-Time?
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Faculty Lines

• Academic unit has set number of faculty positions
  (lines).
• Controlled by university.
• Can be changed by
• Enrollment growth or decline

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Creation of Vacancy

• Retirement, resignation, death.
• New faculty line.

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Definition of Position

• Teaching specialties.
• Degree and other requirements.
• Rank.

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Applications

• Application letter, CV and other materials.
  Names of references.
• Position must be open minimum number of days.
• Review of applications begins after that period.

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Search Committee Review

• Careful examination of paper record.
• Limited contact with references.
• This review results in the

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Short List

• Best 3-5 applicants.
• Committee contacts references.
• Possible telephone interviews.
• Committee recommends this list for

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Faculty Action

• Recommendation to dean that candidates on short
  list be invited for interviews.
• These candidates are invited to campus for

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Interview Visit

• 1-2 days on campus.
• Meetings with administrators, faculty and
  students.
• Teach a class.
• Research or creative presentation.
• Visits are followed by

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Search Committee Action

• Recommendation to faculty and dean that Candidate
  A be offered the position.

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Offer

• Dean offers position to the candidatepending
  final approval of Board of Trustees/Governors.
• Candidate accepts.

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Job announcements

• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Editor Publisher
• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
  Communication
• http//www.aejmc.org/