1. Sharing What You’ve 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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3. 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.
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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?
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5. General Strategies for 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.
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.
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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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13. 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.

14. 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.
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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”
Can you use examples from your newspaper?
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18. 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.
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19. 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?
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20. 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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21. 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
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.
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26. Adjunct or Part-time Full-time
Teaching for Pay
Adjunct or Part-time
Full-time

27. Strategies for Adjunct 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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29. 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).
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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
contact
Emphasize difference between teaching and learning.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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40. What about Full-Time?
Discuss this only if there is interest and 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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43. 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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45. 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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49. 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
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