Sharing What Youve Learned

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Sharing WhatYouve Learned

• Tom Bowers
• Senior Associate Dean
• School of Journalism
• and Mass Communication

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Agenda

• General strategies for sharing.
• Specific strategies for sessions you have had
  here. Ideas to get you started.
• Strategies for adjunct teaching.

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Arrangements

• How many people? Their motivation for attending?
• How many sessions?
• Time of day (how long?)
• Location (need computers?)

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General Strategies
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Whats 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?

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We remember

• 20 of what we _____.
• 20 of what we hear.
• 50 of what we hear and _____.
• 50 of what we hear and see.

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We remember

• 70 of what we hear, see and ___.
• 70 of what we hear, see and do.

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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)

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• ____ me and Ill listen. ____ me and Ill
  understand. _______ me and Ill learn.
  (Attributed to Lakota Sioux.)

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• Tell me and Ill listen. Show me and Ill
  understand. Involve me and Ill learn.
  (Attributed to Lakota Sioux.)

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Teaching Tips

• Important to have learners do something.
• Explain what you learned here.
• Give corrected copies of exercises.

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Specific Strategies
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Sharing math

• How will you do this?
• Why is this important?
• Handouts from Institute or use local examples.
• Work in teams. Competition?
• Explain answers.

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Sharing grammar

• How will you do this?
• Why is this important?
• Handouts from Institute or local examples.
• Share answers with each other.

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Make it timely

• The people in the queue who managed to get
  tickets were very satisfied. (Use 2 commas to
  change meaning.)
• The people in the queue, who managed to get
  tickets, were very satisfied.
• Eats, Shoots and Leaves (Lynne Truss)

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More from Lynne Truss

• Go get him, surgeons!
• Go, get him surgeons. (correct) From Macbeth.
• What is this thing called, love?

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More from Lynne Truss

• A woman without her man is nothing. (Punctuate
  to change meaning.)
• A woman, without her man, is nothing. (Or)
• A woman Without her, man is nothing.

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Libel and privacy

• How will you do this?
• Why is this important?
• Give hypotheticals.
• Small-group discussion and reports.
• Make sure everyone gets the facts.

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Sharing fact checking

• How will you do this?
• Examples of why this is important.
• Make up exercises based on ones from Institute.

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Editing graphics

• How will you do this?
• Why is this important?

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Helping muddled writing

• How will you do this?
• Why is this important?

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A Southern Season

• Why is this important?
• What will you learn?

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Questions and ideas
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Teaching for Pay

• Adjunct or Part-time
• Full-time

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Strategies forAdjunct Teaching
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Getting hired

• Find names of schools in area.
• Dean, director or chair of journalism program.
• Include résumé. (CV)
• Show that you understand what teaching entails

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Course assignment

• Likely to be existing course.
• Ask for syllabus.
• Expected 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

• Knowledge of the subject
• Your 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.
• Enthusiasm. Show that you are excited about the
  subject and your students.

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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.

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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.

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Teaching tips

• Ask for feedback after 3-4 weeks.
• Adjust if appropriate.
• Explain why if you cannot adjust.

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Be prepared to deal with

• Students who dont want to be journalists.
• Students with weak writing skills.
• Students who dont read newspapers.
• Students who are late to class.
• Students who want to surf the Web.

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Be prepared to deal with

• The elation of coaching students who get the
  point you want them to learn.
• The immense satisfaction of shaping lives and
  careers.

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What about Full-Time?
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Faculty lines

• Academic unit has set number of faculty positions
  (lines).
• Controlled by the university.
• Can be changed by
• Enrollment growth or decline
• Endowment
• Spousal-hire opportunity

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Creation of vacancy

• Retirement, resignation, death.
• New faculty line.

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Definition of the 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 the paper record.
• Limited contact with references.
• This review results in the

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Short list

• Best 3-5 applicants.
• Committee contacts references.
• Some schools may conduct 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 candidatepending
  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/