Sharing What You’ve Learned

1. Sharing WhatYou’ve Learned Tom Bowers Interim Dean School of Journalism and Mass Communication

2. 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? Sharing What You've Learned

3. Agenda • General strategies for sharing. • Specific strategies for sessions this week. • Ideas to get you started. • Strategies for adjunct teaching (if time permits and you are interested). Sharing What You've Learned

4. Arrangements • How many people? • Motivation for attending? • Expected resistance? • How many sessions? • Time of day (how long?) • Location (need computers?) Sharing What You've Learned

5. General Strategies

6. Tell the Value • Why is this knowledge or skill important? • When and how will you use it? • How does it relate to what you already know? Sharing What You've Learned

7. 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

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

9. 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

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

11. “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

12. Presentation Tips • Important to have learners do something. • Give corrected copies of exercises. • Explain the correct answers. Sharing What You've Learned

13. Specific Strategies

14. Editing: Accuracy and Speed • How will you do this? • Importance? • Handouts from Institute or use local examples. • Work in teams. Competition? Sharing What You've Learned

15. Editing the Project Piece • How will you do this? • Importance? • Handouts from Institute or local examples. Sharing What You've Learned

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

17. Alternative Story Forms • How will you do this? • Discuss forms you have used. • Importance? Sharing What You've Learned

18. AP Style Updates • How will you do this? • Importance? Sharing What You've Learned

19. Grammar Review • How will you do this? • Importance? Sharing What You've Learned

20. Remaining Topics • Getting the Math Right • Writing Better Heads • Managing People Sharing What You've Learned

21. A Southern Season • Importance? • What will you learn? Sharing What You've Learned

22. Questions and Ideas Sharing What You've Learned

23. Sharing What You've Learned

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

25. Strategies forAdjunct Teaching

26. 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

27. Assigned Course • Likely to be existing course. • Ask for syllabus. • Expect to follow existing course objectives. • Use your own strategies. Sharing What You've Learned

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

29. Show: • Knowledge of the subject • Your experience • Ability to help others learn the subject and its skills. • Availability to students • Office hours • Email contact Sharing What You've Learned

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

31. 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

32. 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

33. Teaching Tips • Have students work together. • Collaborate on an assignment. • Grade each other. • Give them lots of practice. Return assignments promptly. • Create realistic assignments. Use deadline pressure. Sharing What You've Learned

34. Teaching Tips • Allow students to practice and make mistakes before you grade them. • Give as much detail in advance about how you will evaluate their work. • Show exemplary work of others. Sharing What You've Learned

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

36. Be Prepared For… • Students who don’t want to be journalists. • Students with weak writing skills. • Students who don’t read newspapers. • Students who are late to class. • Students who want to surf the Web. Sharing What You've Learned

37. 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

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39. What about Full-Time?

40. 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

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

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

43. 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

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

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

46. 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

47. 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

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

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

50. 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