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

Sharing What You've Learned 2 Agenda General strategies for sharing Strategies for sessions here Ideas to get you started Strategies for adjunct teaching

Sharing What You've Learned 3 Sooooooo… You must share what you’ve learned. How do you feel about that?

Sharing What You've Learned 4 Think about Arrangements How many people? Their motivation? Expected resistance? How many sessions? Time of day (how long?) Location (need computers?)

Sharing What You've Learned 5 Choosing Topics Can’t share everything. What one topic would YOU choose? Strategy for choosing: –What do they need? –What interests you? –What’s the easiest?

General Strategies

Sharing What You've Learned 7 What’s the Value? Tell why this knowledge or skill is important. Tell when and how they will use it. Relate it to what they know.

Sharing What You've Learned 8 Engage Them We remember 20% of what we _____. 20% of what we hear. 50% of what we hear and _____. 50% of what we hear and see.

Sharing What You've Learned 9 We Remember: 70% of what we hear, see and ___. 70% of what we hear, see and do.

Sharing What You've Learned 10 We Remember: 90% of what we hear, see, do and ______ as we are doing it. 90% of what we hear, see, do and talk about as we are doing it. (source unknown)

Sharing What You've Learned 11 “____ me and I’ll listen. ____ me and I’ll understand. _______ me and I’ll learn.” (Attributed to Lakota Sioux.)

Sharing What You've Learned 12 “Tell me and I’ll listen. Show me and I’ll understand. Involve me and I’ll learn.” (Attributed to Lakota Sioux.)

Sharing What You've Learned 13 Presentation Tips Important to have learners do something. Give them chances to practice.

Specific Strategies for This Week’s Topics

Sharing What You've Learned 15 How to Edit When You don’t have Time How will you do this? Importance? Handouts from Institute or local examples. Work in pairs. Competition?

Sharing What You've Learned 16 Grammar Review How will you do this? Importance? Pairs work on grammar quiz? “Jeopardy”

Sharing What You've Learned 17 Fact Checks How will you do this? Importance of this topic? Competition?

Sharing What You've Learned 18 Geography Refresher How will you do this? Geography bee?

Sharing What You've Learned 19 Libel and Privacy Issues How will you do this? Importance? Give hypotheticals. Small-group discussion and reports.

Sharing What You've Learned 20 Alternative Story Forms How will you do this? Importance? Give pairs a traditional story and ask them to rewrite it in alternative form. When are alternative forms best?

Sharing What You've Learned 21 Taking Care of Yourself What’s the content? Importance? How will you do this?

Sharing What You've Learned 22 Skeptical Editing Why is this important? How will you do this?

Sharing What You've Learned 23 Remaining Topics Editing the Project Piece Getting the Math Right Writing Better Heads Grammar Smackdown Language and Culture Web and Blog Managing People

Sharing What You've Learned 24 A Southern Season Importance? What will you learn?

Sharing What You've Learned 25 Questions and Ideas

Sharing What You've Learned 26

Teaching for Pay Adjunct or Part-time Full-time

Strategies for Adjunct Teaching

Sharing What You've Learned 29 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 30 Your Course Assignment Likely to be existing course. Ask for syllabus. Expect to follow existing course objectives. Use your own strategies.

Sharing What You've Learned 31 Create a Course Objectives Logical arrangement of topics For a semester or quarter Creating and evaluating assignments

Sharing What You've Learned 32 Show your: Knowledge of the subject –Experience Ability to help others learn the subject and its skills. Availability to students –Office hours – contact

Sharing What You've Learned 33 Find Out: Grading philosophy of the school. Your classroom and its capabilities. Technical support from the school.

Sharing What You've Learned 34 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.

Sharing What You've Learned 35 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 36 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 37 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 38 Teaching Tips Ask for feedback after 3-4 weeks. Adjust if appropriate. Explain why you cannot adjust.

Sharing What You've Learned 39 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 40 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 41

What about Full-Time?

Sharing What You've Learned 43 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 44 Creation of Vacancy Retirement, resignation, death. New faculty line.

Sharing What You've Learned 45 Definition of Position Teaching specialties. Degree and other requirements. Rank.

Sharing What You've Learned 46 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 47 Search Committee Review Careful examination of paper record. Limited contact with references. This review results in the…

Sharing What You've Learned 48 Short List Best 3-5 applicants. Committee contacts references. Possible telephone interviews. Committee recommends this list for…

Sharing What You've Learned 49 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 50 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 51 Search Committee Action Recommendation to faculty and dean that Candidate A be offered the position.

Sharing What You've Learned 52 Offer Dean offers position to the candidate—pending final approval of Board of Trustees/Governors. Candidate accepts.

Sharing What You've Learned 53 Job announcements Chronicle of Higher Education Editor & Publisher Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication –