Sharing What
You’ve Learned
Tom Bowers
Dean Emeritus
School of Journalism
and Mass Communication
Agenda
• General strategies for sharing
• Strategies for sessions here
• Ideas to get you started
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Learned-2008
Think about Arrangements
• How many people?
• Their motivation?
• Resistance?
• Time of day (how long?)
• Location and technology
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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?
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Learned-2008
General Strategies
for
All Topics
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.
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Learned-2008
Engage Them
• We remember 20% of what we
_____.
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Learned-2008
Engage Them
• We remember 20% of what we
hear.
• 50% of what we hear and ____.
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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 __.
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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
______.
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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.
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Learned-2008
Presentation Tips
• Tell them.
• Show them.
• Do it.
• Talk about it.
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Learned-2008
Specific Strategies
for
This Week’s Topics
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
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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
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Learned-2008
Ethics
• Importance?
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
say?
show?
do?
talk about?
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Learned-2008
Grammar Smackdown
• Importance?
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
• “Jeopardy”
say?
show?
do?
talk about?
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Learned-2008
Libel and Privacy Issues
• Importance?
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
say?
show?
do?
talk about?
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Learned-2008
Alternative Story Forms
• Importance?
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
say?
show?
do?
talk about?
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Learned-2008
Taking Care of Yourself
• Importance?
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
say?
show?
do?
talk about?
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Learned-2008
Web Essentials and Editing
• Importance?
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
• What will you
say?
show?
do?
talk about?
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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
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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
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Learned-2008
Mapleview Farm
• Importance?
• What did you learn?
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Questions and Ideas
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Learned-2008
Teaching for Pay
Adjunct or Part-time
Full-time
Strategies for
Adjunct Teaching
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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Learned-2008
Your Course Assignment
• Likely to be existing course.
• Ask for syllabus.
• Expect to follow existing course
objectives.
• Use your own strategies.
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Learned-2008
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
– 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Learned-2008
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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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.
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What about Full-Time?
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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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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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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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
– http://www.aejmc.org/
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