Note 1: It is important to understand that cooperative learning is about putting students in the role of teacher to their peers, not group work. These lessons will not work simply by putting a slideshow on the projector. Students will have to adjust to the new style of learning if you have not done cooperative learning before, but they will eventually buy in if you buy in.
Note 2: Each unit is unrelated to the other so they can be taught in isolation. However, the units themselves are scaffolded building up from the previous lesson. If teaching out of order, be sure not having taught the unit sequentially is OK for your class.
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These are nine lessons on using the Associated Press Stylebook, as well as common rules including attribution & quote formatting, time references, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, numbers, word usage and punctuation.These are seven news writing lessons including choosing story ideas, inverted pyramid writing, lede writing, writing nut grafs, writing transitions, choosing good quotes & information, and ending a story.These are five lessons on the basics of photojournalism including photo composition, breaking basic composition technique rules, the exposure triangle, editing photos, and writing storytelling captions.These are five lessons on basic publication design including principles of design, font and mood, color combinations and modes, basic yearbook design, and basic newspaper design.
These are five lessons on interviewing techniques including what types of sources exist, types of questions to ask, how to write and order questions, preparing for and, finally, conducting the interview.These are five lessons on opinion writing including choosing a topic and ethics of opinion writing, writing strong arguments, writing the top of the opinion piece, refuting the opposition, and calling to action.These are four lessons on media law and ethics including the ABCs of ethics, the First Amendment protections and limits, defamation and right to privacy, and school speech limits.
This is the Master’s Professional project by Stephen Green, graduate student at Kent State University in the Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication with a Journalism Education concentration.
Green's J-School 