I use the curriculum designed by Jostens (123 yearbook) for our yearbook portion. It covers reporting, leads, headlines, captions and such. It is wonderful! It comes with worksheets, powerpoints, and tests ready to go. I would advise your school to purchase this (it even works with middle school). You can just reuse it year after year. I also got the book, Radical Write by Bobby Hawthorne. It is great for teaching them to write from a personal point of view and not just cover the event.
I make up a lot of our curriculum myself and just wing it according to how they do the work. Getting them to write is like pulling teeth. I don't understand why they would join journalism and not want to write. *sigh* The joys of teaching.
Certainly the stuff used by Josten's is golden. You might also find some information from the Poynter Institute in St Petersberg Fla. (Wouldn't that be a road trip!) I think it is poynter dot org for the website.
You might find some ethics cases on Indiana U's web site for journalism.
I think the key is to start small. Build their confidence by smaller items. No more than 200 w. You might make it a game. Anything over 200 w is a mark off for every word, for example. And you might even use something with info graphics, as USA Today does. "Make a chart that shows..." .details......whatever you task them to do. And photography. It's all still journalism, story telling.
Janet Miller
I use the curriculum designed by Jostens (123 yearbook) for our yearbook portion. It covers reporting, leads, headlines, captions and such. It is wonderful! It comes with worksheets, powerpoints, and tests ready to go. I would advise your school to purchase this (it even works with middle school). You can just reuse it year after year. I also got the book, Radical Write by Bobby Hawthorne. It is great for teaching them to write from a personal point of view and not just cover the event.
I make up a lot of our curriculum myself and just wing it according to how they do the work. Getting them to write is like pulling teeth. I don't understand why they would join journalism and not want to write. *sigh* The joys of teaching.
Feb 25, 2011
Mike Gange
Certainly the stuff used by Josten's is golden. You might also find some information from the Poynter Institute in St Petersberg Fla. (Wouldn't that be a road trip!) I think it is poynter dot org for the website.
You might find some ethics cases on Indiana U's web site for journalism.
I think the key is to start small. Build their confidence by smaller items. No more than 200 w. You might make it a game. Anything over 200 w is a mark off for every word, for example. And you might even use something with info graphics, as USA Today does. "Make a chart that shows..." .details......whatever you task them to do. And photography. It's all still journalism, story telling.
Feb 25, 2011
Shirley Durr
In case you don't already know of it:
Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting: Global Gateway
"inspires students to become active consumers and producers of news and information"
Jun 30, 2011