Sharing WhatYou’ve Learned

Tom BowersDean Emeritus

School of Journalismand 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• Can’t share everything.• Strategy for choosing:

– What do they need?– What interests you?– What’s the easiest?

• What topic would YOU choose?

General Strategiesfor

All Topics

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What’s the Value?• Why this knowledge or skill is

important.• When and how they will use it.• How it relates to what they know.

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.

Specific Strategies

for This Week’s Topics

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How to EditWhen You don’t 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

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?

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

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

Teaching for Pay

Adjunct or Part-timeFull-time

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 don’t want to be

journalists.• Students with weak writing skills.• Students who don’t 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.

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

candidate—pending 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/