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

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

Sharing What You've Learned 3 Arrangements How many people? Their motivation for attending? How many sessions? Time of day (how long?) Location (need computers?)

General Strategies

Sharing What You've Learned 5 What’s 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 6 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 7 We remember: 70% of what we hear, see and ___. 70% of what we hear, see and do.

Sharing What You've Learned 8 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 9 “____ me and I’ll listen. ____ me and I’ll understand. _______ me and I’ll learn.” (Attributed to Lakota Sioux.)

Sharing What You've Learned 10 “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 11 Teaching Tips Important to have learners do something. Explain what you learned here. Give corrected copies of exercises.

Specific Strategies

Sharing What You've Learned 13 Sharing math How will you do this? Why is this important? Handouts from Institute or use local examples. Work in teams. Competition? Explain answers.

Sharing What You've Learned 14 Sharing grammar How will you do this? Why is this important? Handouts from Institute or local examples. Share answers with each other.

Sharing What You've Learned 15 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)

Sharing What You've Learned 16 More from Lynne Truss “Go get him, surgeons!” “Go, get him surgeons.” (correct) From Macbeth. “What is this thing called, love?”

Sharing What You've Learned 17 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.

Sharing What You've Learned 18 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.

Sharing What You've Learned 19 Sharing fact checking How will you do this? Examples of why this is important. Make up exercises based on ones from Institute.

Sharing What You've Learned 20 Editing graphics How will you do this? Why is this important?

Sharing What You've Learned 21 Helping muddled writing How will you do this? Why is this important?

Sharing What You've Learned 22 A Southern Season Why is this important? What will you learn?

Sharing What You've Learned 23 Questions and ideas

Sharing What You've Learned 24

Teaching for Pay Adjunct or Part-time Full-time

Strategies for Adjunct Teaching

Sharing What You've Learned 27 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…

Sharing What You've Learned 28 Course assignment Likely to be existing course. Ask for syllabus. Expected to follow existing course objectives. Use your own strategies.

Sharing What You've Learned 29 Create a course Objectives Logical arrangement of topics For a semester or quarter Creating and evaluating assignments

Sharing What You've Learned 30 Show: Knowledge of the subject –Your experience Ability to help others learn the subject and its skills. Availability to students –Office hours – contact

Sharing What You've Learned 31 Find out: Grading philosophy of the school. Your classroom and its capabilities. Technical support from the school.

Sharing What You've Learned 32 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 33 Teaching tips Engage students as much as possible. –Ask questions. –Stimulate discussion. Enthusiasm. Show that you are excited about the subject and your students.

Sharing What You've Learned 34 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 35 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 36 Teaching tips Ask for feedback after 3-4 weeks. Adjust if appropriate. Explain why if you cannot adjust.

Sharing What You've Learned 37 Be prepared to deal with: 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 38 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.

Sharing What You've Learned 39

What about Full-Time?

Sharing What You've Learned 41 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

Sharing What You've Learned 42 Creation of vacancy Retirement, resignation, death. New faculty line.

Sharing What You've Learned 43 Definition of the position Teaching specialties. Degree and other requirements. Rank.

Sharing What You've Learned 44 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 45 Search committee review Careful examination of the paper record. Limited contact with references. This review results in the…

Sharing What You've Learned 46 Short list Best 3-5 applicants. Committee contacts references. Some schools may conduct telephone interviews. Committee recommends this list for…

Sharing What You've Learned 47 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 48 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 49 Search committee action Recommendation to faculty and dean that Candidate A be offered the position.

Sharing What You've Learned 50 Offer Dean offers position to the candidate—pending final approval of Board of Trustees/Governors. Candidate accepts.

Sharing What You've Learned 51 Job announcements Chronicle of Higher Education Editor & Publisher Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication –