Sharing What You’ve Learned Tom Bowers Dean Emeritus School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Agenda General strategies for sharing Strategies for sessions here Ideas to get you started Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Think about Arrangements How many people? Their motivation? Resistance? Time of day (how long?) Location and technology ASK THEM TO THINK ABOUT THESE AND COME UP WITH IDEAS. LOCATION Probably most convenient to do this at the newspaper. Use computers for skills. TIME Timing will have to coincide with work schedules. Limit sessions to about 90 minutes. Shorter is better. PRINTED MATERIALS Example: my handout to you. Distribute materials to make it easier to take notes, if that is important. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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? Sharing What You've Learned-2008

General Strategies for All Topics

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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. We learn new things by relating them to what we already know. Prompting people to think of what they already know will help them learn new concepts and skills. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Engage Them We remember 20% of what we _____. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Engage Them We remember 20% of what we hear. 50% of what we hear and ____. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Engage Them We remember 20% of what we hear. 50% of what we hear and see. 70% of what we hear, see and __. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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 ______. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Presentation Tips Tell them. Show them. Do it. Talk about it. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Specific Strategies for This Week’s Topics Go through several of the individual topics. Show the question and ask the group what kinds of things they want to share with colleagues. Give them time to write some ideas. They can think of these as their objectives. Ask a few to share their ideas. New skills: Important to practice and coach. New knowledge or issues: Important to have students verbalize the new knowledge.

How to Edit When 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 Ask participants for their ideas before giving ideas. Important to understand the math problems and to be able to explain the answers. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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 Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Ethics Importance? What will you say? What will you show? What will you do? What will you talk about? Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Grammar Smackdown Importance? What will you say? What will you show? What will you do? What will you talk about? “Jeopardy” Can you use examples from your newspaper? Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Libel and Privacy Issues Importance? What will you say? What will you show? What will you do? What will you talk about? Ask if anyone can use an example from their newspaper or their experience. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Alternative Story Forms Importance? What will you say? What will you show? What will you do? What will you talk about? Can you use local examples? Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Taking Care of Yourself Importance? What will you say? What will you show? What will you do? What will you talk about? Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Web Essentials and Editing Importance? What will you say? What will you show? What will you do? What will you talk about? Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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 Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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 Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Mapleview Farm Importance? What did you learn? Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Questions and Ideas Ask if anyone is interested in talking about strategies for getting teaching opportunities either as adjuncts or as full-time teachers. If so, go on to next slide. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Adjunct or Part-time Full-time Teaching for Pay Adjunct or Part-time Full-time

Strategies for Adjunct Teaching

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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… Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Your Course Assignment Likely to be existing course. Ask for syllabus. Expect to follow existing course objectives. Use your own strategies. Adjuncts are usually asked to teach existing courses. No one expects or wants you to deviate from the fundamentals of the existing course. There may be considerable standardization across sections of the same course. This is necessary for the school to ensure that all students come out of the course with the same basic skills. If you are not given this kind of guidance, you will be expected to develop your own course. Semesters are usually 15 weeks (2-3 classes per week), and quarters are usually 10 weeks (3-5 classes per week). Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Create a Course Objectives Logical arrangement of topics For a semester or quarter Creating and evaluating assignments Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Show your: Knowledge of the subject Experience Ability to help others learn the subject and its skills. Availability to students Office hours Email contact Emphasize difference between teaching and learning. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Find Out: Grading philosophy of the school. Your classroom and its capabilities. Technical support from the school. You don’t want to give a lot of high grades if that goes against the philosophy of the school. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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. Learning and using students’ names is the single most important thing you can do to make teaching a rewarding experience for your students and you. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Teaching Tips Ask for feedback after 3-4 weeks. Adjust if appropriate. Explain why you cannot adjust. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Be Prepared For… Elation of coaching students who “get” the point you want them to learn. Immense satisfaction of shaping lives and careers. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

What about Full-Time? Discuss this only if there is interest and time.

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Faculty Lines Academic unit has set number of faculty positions (lines). Controlled by university. Can be changed by: Enrollment growth or decline Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Creation of Vacancy Retirement, resignation, death. New faculty line. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Definition of Position Teaching specialties. Degree and other requirements. Rank. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 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. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Search Committee Review Careful examination of paper record. Limited contact with references. This review results in the… Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Short List Best 3-5 applicants. Committee contacts references. Possible telephone interviews. Committee recommends this list for… Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Faculty Action Recommendation to dean that candidates on short list be invited for interviews. These candidates are invited to campus for … Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Interview Visit 1-2 days on campus. Meetings with administrators, faculty and students. Teach a class. Research or creative presentation. Visits are followed by … Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Search Committee Action Recommendation to faculty and dean that Candidate A be offered the position. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Offer Dean offers position to the candidate—pending final approval of Board of Trustees/Governors. Candidate accepts. Sharing What You've Learned-2008

Sharing What You've Learned-2008 Job announcements Chronicle of Higher Education Editor & Publisher Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication http://www.aejmc.org/ Sharing What You've Learned-2008