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Teacher Tips
Name:
Sarah Osgood Brooks
Affiliation/School:
Visiting Assistant Professor/Professor of Geography, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan
How you use NOW in the classroom:
I sometimes tape segments of NOW and use them later in my World Cultures courses, my Latin American Geography Courses, or International Development courses. Some programs or segments of programs are relevant to more than one course. I show the program and then we discuss it.
Some issues provoke discussion more than others. One such program was aired just last spring on growing cotton in Burkina Faso and how subsidies on cotton grown in the US contributed to the African farmers barely breaking even on their crops after seeds, cultivation, harvesting, and getting the harvest to market. This one was a real eye-opener for the world cultures students, not having any idea how subsidies paid to US farmers could keep kids out of school in an African country, not to mention keep them hungry and barefoot.
I figure if a picture is worth a thousand words, a well made documentary is worth 10,000 words and sometimes hours of continued thought and discussion after the students leave the classroom, assuming they argue about things in the dorms or at the dinner table, which I certainly did as a student.
Name:
Bud Evans
Affiliation/School:
Department of Political Science, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
How you use NOW in the classroom:
I regularly use edited excerpts of NOW programs in my Contemporary Global Issues, Global Environment, World Food Systems, and American and California Government classes. They provide my students powerful, thoughtful, and timely insights into many of the issues we consider, and support extended class discussion.
Name:
Phil Newton
Affiliation/School:
Government/History Teacher (Grades 8, 12), Moriah Central School, Port Henry, NY
How you use NOW in the classroom:
I use the program, mostly for my 12th Grade Government classes. to highlight issues that are often overlooked/under-reported by traditional media (NOW's segment on sub-prime crisis).
Name:
Ann Virtu Snyder
Affiliation/School:
Instructor, Women's Studies, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
How you use NOW in the classroom:
I use a number of NOW programs to help students understand current issues, and to stimulate discussion in the classroom. Some of the programs I am currently using:For "Introduction to Women's Studies"Military Sexual Trauma: This show accompanies our unit on resisting violence against womenAnna Deavere Smith on Art and Politics: Accompanies our unit on women and cultureI also use the NOW website for "Facts and Figures", especially the info on CEO salary (which I use during our unit on class). Students are given the NOW website as a resource for their papers and projects.
Name:
Ken Stein
Affiliation/School:
Teacher, Satellite Academy High School in New York City
How you use NOW in the classroom:
I have been trolling the podcast site for segments on climate change and I will be looking for pieces on the role of government next semester as well. The may include, but not limited to hot-button issues like health care, the never ending war and politics in general. I like the idea of bringing personal perspectives into class have having students respond to them. This is important at my school since students present portfolios in lieu of New York State standardized Regents Exams — so it's important for students to be able to speak concretely about issues and how people are effected by them in order to back up other sources of information they have gathered for their portfolios.
Name:
Julie Sullivan
Affiliation/School:
Department of Political Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
How you use NOW in the classroom:
I use video clips from NOW programs in my classes. What interests me about the educational materials is to see what students might be exposed to in high school, since I teach freshmen in their first semester of college.
Name:
Timothy Stewart Clark
Affiliation/School:
Adjunct Faculty and Doctoral Fellow, Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy, George Washington University School of Business, Washington, DC
How you use NOW in the classroom:
I use NOW video clips regularly, pairing relevant ones periodically with various topics in my sophomore- and senior-level business-and-society classes.
Name:
Rebecca L. Pearson, MPH, CHES
Affiliation/School:
Doctoral Fellow, Health Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
How you use NOW in the classroom:
I have used NOW in both my Personal Health and Safety and Community Health Planning classes - specific episodes have been Secret History of Credit Cards and Earn-a-bike program in Houston.
Name:
Frank McKenna Jr. Ph. D.
Affiliation/School:
Department of Political Science, Bowling Green State University
How you use NOW in the classroom:
As a supplement to lectures; see course syllabi on web page (www.dacor.net/mckenna) and look under "Courses"
Name:
Sandra Jones
Affiliation/School:
Director of Speech/Debate/Broadcasting, Killough Middle School, Alief, TX
How you use NOW in the classroom:
The NOW Classroom program has been extremely beneficial to all of my classes, especially Debate, and Public Speaking. The members of the Debate class are continuously researching various debate topics for Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, and Cross Examination Debate, as well as possible Parliamentary resolutions. The students have been able to use NOW to get information and updates on various resolution topics. The one thing that they seem to like most is that the synopsis is concise and to the point, yet extremely informative, which saves time. It is also extremely helpful to the students' file of current events, which they must keep up to date with the latest news on various issues. My Speech and Debate Team feel so fortunate to have access to the NOW Classroom program. It has made their research quicker and more concise.
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