I’m desperately looking for a job teaching right now here in Michigan. I just moved back from China.
Anyway, I’m certified English/History, but I have an interview for teaching one journalism class and one “mass media” class in a High School.
Has anyone ever taught these subjects? Does anyone have any good ideas or suggestions? What have you found helpful?
Thanks!
Well, I taught English and Journalism for 5 years, although it was a few decades ago. What kind of help are you looking for? How to interview? How to teach? How to search for a job? Teaching jobs in any of the humanities are few and far between these days, BTW. So if you’re not getting offers, don’t take it personally.
I took a mass media class a few years ago and one of the exercises was to go an entire day without any mass media exposure–no TV, internet, radio, magazines, books, CDs–nothing. And then write an essay on it. Interesting exercise.
For my college-level mass-media course, we had to keep a journal where we wrote about various news stories. The prof’s original intent was to have us watch/listen to/read the same story from at least two different sources so we could find and compare and contrast the slant. Unfortunately, there were way too many people who watch Fox news as their only source of news for that to be practical. And at least one of my classmates told the prof that NPR is “communist”.
I also took HS journalism and did a LOT of writing.
Robin