Jessica Birthisel | June 11, 2010
Workshop Director and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Shannon Martin said that this year’s workshop will follow a different format than previous years, with a particular emphasis on helping the junior professors structure course outcomes and goals.
“The goal of the Teaching Fellows Workshop is to familiarize new teaching faculty with the range of responsibilities they will have as teachers,” said Martin.
Martin said more than just learning from IU faculty members’ experiences and cautionary tales, fellows will leave at the end of the week with something concrete in their hands to use in the classroom.
In order to meet this goal, fellows will work throughout the five-day workshop to produce a syllabus using backward course design and to create a five-minute concept lesson to present in front of their peers.
For some fellows with research- or professionally-intensive backgrounds, the concept lessons serve as their first classroom teaching experience. Not only do they get to practice teaching in a comfortable environment, but they get valuable feedback from their peers, both on content and presentation.
“To have your teaching critiqued really weeds out, or preempts, some teaching ticks,” she said.
Daily sessions cover topics such as course planning and design, preparing a concept lesson, motivating through grading, media literacy and technology. Associate professor Dave Boeyink and Professor Emeritus Peter Jacobi will lead several sessions. Journalism doctoral student Jeff Cannon also will present information and representatives from Indiana University’s Campus Writing Program, Teaching and Learning Technology Center and Instructional Support Service department will contribute.
Beyond the daytime sessions, associate professors Claude Cookman and Tony Fargo and visiting professors Marty Pieratt and Craig Wood will serve as fellow mentors. Fellows and mentors will meet each evening, Martin explains, in order to elaborate on workshop content or talk about other teaching experiences.
Jacobi, who will participate this year through critique and review of teaching, has been participating in the workshop since the 1970s, even before he was affiliated with Indiana University.
“The workshop is a wonderful way to concentrate no issues that a new teacher has to deal with,” said Jacobi citing issues such as grading, teaching and working with administration. “It really covers the waterfront of issues. In this context, fellows get a head start.”
The 2010 fellows are:
- Staci Baird, who teaches digital newsgathering and contemporary news media in the journalism department at San Francisco State University. She joined the SFSU faculty in fall 2009 as a lecturer.
- Lucy Brown, who teaches advertising and account planning at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University. She joined the TSU faculty in January as an assistant professor.
- Angela Criscoe, faculty adviser of the student-run radio station at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Ga. She teaches broadcast journalism and mass media and society as well as other topics as needed in the Department of Mass Communication. She joined the department full time in the fall of 2009 as a lecturer.
- Laura Janelle Downey, who joined Florida A&M University’s faculty in August 2009. As a visiting assistant professor in the magazine production track, she also serves as adviser for Journey, the award-winning student magazine.
- Nahed Eltantawy, who teaches convergent journalism in the Nido Qubein School of Communication at High Point University at High Point, N.C. She joined HPU in fall 2008 as an assistant professor of journalism.
- Chantal Francoeur, who just joined the Department of Journalism at Concordia University, where she also is pursuing a doctorate in communication studies.
- Erin E. Gilles, who teaches print journalism and public relations in the mass communication and journalism program at Kentucky State University. She joined the KSU faculty in fall 2009 as an assistant professor.
- John C.P. Goheen, who began his first full-time teaching position in August 2009 at Loyola University in Chicago. He teaches video production/journalism in the School of Communication.
- Leonard Horton, visiting associate professor with Florida A&M University’s School of Journalism in the broadcast sequence, who also is news director for News 20 at Five, the school’s student news station.
- Jeff Inman, who teaches magazine journalism at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He first taught at Drake as an adjunct professor in the fall of 2006, then joined the faculty as a full-time member in fall 2008.
- Laura Johnston, who is an assistant professor at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Mo. She teaches an introductory editing course and supervises student copy editors who staff the Columbia Missourian.
- Kelty Logan, who teaches mass communication and advertising courses in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which she joined in fall 2009 as an assistant professor.
- Herbert Lowe, who just completed his first semester as a professional-in-residence in the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communications, Marquette University.
- Yolanda McCutchen, who joined the faculty of Claflin University’s Department of Mass Communications in fall 2009 to teach broadcast and public relations courses.
- Danny Paskin, who is an assistant professor at California State University at Long Beach since 2008 who focuses on new media journalism and graphic design.
- Colin P. Pool, who teaches courses in sound production in the Department of Mass Communications at Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C., where he joined the faculty in January.
- Bruce Redman, who was a television industry professional for nearly 30 years before he started teaching visual journalism, production and reporting religion in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
- Indira S. Somani, who is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communications at Washington and Lee University. She joined the faculty in fall 2008 and teaches online producing, broadcast producing and broadcast reporting.
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