Michael Zennie | June 12, 2008
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| Teaching fellow Emily Metzgar, left, who joins the School of Journalism faculty in August, had questions during a workshop session. She and Deserai Anderson Crow of the University of Colorado are just two of the 15 fellows learning to transition from professional to professorial careers. |
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Now in its 31st year, the school’s annual Teaching Fellows Workshop takes a handful of talented new professors from across the country and brings them together for a week of classes taught largely by School of Journalism faculty members. The goal is to help the fellows become better teachers when they return to their colleges and universities in the fall.
Over the years, the program has brought the School of Journalism national recognition for its ability to coach new faculty members, said Amy Reynolds, associate dean for graduate studies and the director of the workshop.
“We’ve gotten really, really strong feedback,” she said. “This is one of those workshops that spreads via word of mouth.”
This year’s 15 teaching fellows come from across North America and have a wide variety of professional backgrounds. They are on campus from June 8 to 12.
Sue Burzynski Bullard, for example, a University of Nebraska professor, is a former managing editor at the Detroit News. Jangyul Robert Kim, on the other hand, is on the faculty at Colorado State University and teaches public relations. He was the first Korean awarded accreditation in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America and he worked as a public relations consultant for several multinational corporations including Visa, McDonald’s and Apple before leaving the professional world.
Kim said the greatest strength of the Teaching Fellows Workshop is that he has been able to learn to be a better teacher from his peers while giving them feedback from his own experiences.
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| School of Journalism Riley Visiting Professor Dennis Elliott talked to Nancy Muturi of Kansas State University before class Thursday at the School of Journalism’s Teaching Fellows Workshops. |
Emily Metzgar fits in the latter group. After working as a U.S. diplomat, she received her doctorate from Louisiana State University in May. She will join the IU School of Journalism in August as one of its newest faculty members.
Metzgar said she took some teaching seminars at Louisiana State, but nothing with the intensity of the Teaching Fellows Workshop. Sessions last from 9 a.m. until almost 5 p.m. for four days.
“It’s like drinking from a fire hose,” she said.
The focus of the workshop is always how to better engage students, Reynolds said. But each year she tries to update the curriculum to fit the challenges and needs of teaching at a modern university.
A new addition this year is a course tackling the advantages and the potential pitfalls of publishing student work to the World Wide Web. Assistant professor Tony Fargo, himself a graduate of the Teaching Fellows Workshop, is teaching the class.
2008 Teaching Fellows:
Elaine Bieberly, Benedictine College
Susan Brockus, California State University, Chico
Sue Burzynski Bullard, Michigan State University
Bridgette Colaco, Troy University
Deserai Anderson Crow, University of Colorado
Dennis D. Elliott, Indiana University
Steve Fox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jangyul Robert Kim, Colorado State University
Kimberley Mangun, University of Utah
Emily Metzgar, Indiana University
George Miller, Temple University
Nancy, Muturi, Kansas State University
Kyle Reinson, St. John Fisher College
David Secko, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Fred Vallance-Jones, University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada
