This award is presented to the winners of the AEJMC History Division’s teaching competition. Members may submit an innovative teaching technique to the contest, which is judged by a committee each spring.
Teaching ideas should be original, tested, and creative techniques used by the author in teaching media history and could be used by other instructors or institutions. The competition welcomes a variety of teaching ideas, including those taught across a quarter/semester or taught as a module within an individual course. Of particular interest are teaching ideas that help instructors address one or more of these pedagogies: diversity, collaboration, community, or justice. The 2024 deadline for submissions is May 8.
The applications should be submitted as one document saved in a PDF format to aejmchistory@gmail.com using the subject line “Jinx C. Broussard Award” and should include:
- Required: a three-page CV
- Required: a single-spaced, two-page discussion of the teaching idea that includes a 250-word overview followed by discussions of these seven criteria used for judging.
- Optional: a set of supplementary teaching materials relevant to the teaching idea, such as syllabus, assignment, handouts, links, or slide, saved as PDF and no more than five pages
Criteria for judging
- Originality (makes clear how the work has not been published or presented at a conference or an online forum previously; is not in any other 2024 AEJMC competition; and does not represent another person’s teaching without acknowledgment of that work and discussion of significant modification by the author)
- Tested (describes how employed previously in the author’s classroom)
- Transferability (makes a case for how other schools/classes/programs could use)
- Degree of transformative nature (speaks to evidence of how the teaching leads to a marked change on the part of students, such as via assessment or student feedback)
- Degree of focus on diversity, collaboration, community, and/or justice (addresses one or more of these pedagogies, as defined by the author)
- Degree of clarity (presented clearly, completely, and concisely)
- Willingness to present (expresses willingness to present at the 2024 AEJMC conference)
Please send any questions about the 2024 competition to the division’s Teaching Chair Bailey Dick at bdick@bgsu.edu.