TEACHING HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISM

Catalog description

This course prepares future English Language Arts teachers to teach high school journalism and advise student publications. Students will learn journalistic principles, practices and pedagogy while developing lesson plans and teaching methods for covering major areas of the high journalism curriculum. Through lectures, assigned reading, research, weekly discussions and peer teaching, students will gain both the content knowledge and instructional strategies to foster student voice, ethical journalistic practice and civic engagement in through high school journalism and student publications.