A Guide for Teaching Broadcasting

A Handbook for Broadcast Journalism teachers

This manual provides teachers with tips and ideas for:

-Managing a class of students in a broadcasting program

-Grading assignments and assessing student work

-Motivating students to take responsibility for the quality of their broadcasts

-Assisting students in finding and producing compelling stories

-Structuring your program (and keeping students busy and engaged)

-Managing equipment use and check-out by students

-Includes forms for

...grading student's stories

...grading students for work in the classroom/studio

...pitching story ideas

...checking out equipment

-Equipment purchase ideas

-Building your own teleprompters (through-the-lens)

and more...

   

TEACHING BROADCASTING is a handbook written for middle and high school broadcast journalism teachers. The book is designed to help educators structure their broadcasting classes. It is ideal for schools that are interested in developing, or enhancing, their school news programs. TEACHING BROADCASTING is filled with curriculum ideas. The handbook offers practical solutions to the challenges of grading students, structuring the classroom, managing large groups of students with limited equipment resources, developing a "big budget" look on a low budget, and so much more.

TEACHING BROADCASTING is used in classrooms throughout North America, as well as the U.S. Department of Defense School System in Europe and Asia.

Please see below for information on the authors.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Doug Green is a middle and high school broadcast journalism teacher from Carlsbad, California, and his two programs, (CHSTV and VMSTV) are recognized internationally as models for student broadcast journalism. He is a former National Technology Educator of the Year, a former teacher-advisor to PBS television, and the current president of the Student Television Network. Doug Green has traveled to Europe and Asia to work with video and film teachers in the US Department of Defense School System.

Janna Bollinger is a producer/program advisor, specializing in high school broadcast journalism curriculum development, and the development of systems to help facilitate learning in a scholastic broadcast journalism setting. She has developed procedures of accountability for middle and high school broadcasting students that are being used in classrooms worldwide.