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Welcome to the Educators Toolbox
These resources will enhance your access to teaching materials on LGBT issues in the news media. This is an exciting and growing field of study in journalism and mass communications, and these tools are designed to help grow and develop your curriculum. NLGJA invites you to explore the Educators Toolbox to help bring our mission of fair and accurate coverage closer to your students and colleagues.
Teaching Suggestions
Using the guidelines developed by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, these teaching suggestions offer a number of simple and interesting ways to address LGBT issues in the classroom. Addressing topics from visual literacy to the law, these ideas are sure to spark some creative strategies of your own.
Case Studies
Experience is the best teacher. NLGJA’s case studies use real-life news stories as jumping off points for substantial discussions about journalistic approaches, ethics and responsibilities. How would you have covered this story? What facts are missing? What story elements should have been left out?
Sample Syllabi
NLGJA has gathered a vast collection of course syllabi for educators looking for thoughts, ideas and strategies for introducing coverage of the LGBT community into their classrooms. You’ll find suggested readings, academic texts and course ideas to build your own collection of resources.
Readings & Research
In collaboration with the GLBT Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, NLGJA’s Leroy F. Aarons Journalism Education Program has assembled a comprehensive bibliography of scholarly research mass communication and theory related to the LGBT community.
Campus Outreach
With the Campus Newsroom Outreach Project, NLGJA goes from the newsroom to the classroom or collegiate newsroom to discuss issues surrounding the coverage of LGBT individuals on campus and beyond.
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