Assessing Child’s Rights and Journalism Practice

Central Asian ForumApril 23-27, 2012,kyrgystan

Modules specific sections covering:

• Interviewing skills• Human rights• Child rights• Children in Conflict• Trafficking• Anonymity and identity

protection• Sources• Guidelines and Regulations

•Evaluation: Making judgments on the basis of the information collected.

•Grading: Giving a mark based on the information gathered from assessed tasks

•.Reporting: Conveying the results to students.

•Students must internalise concepts involved

•All aspects of the syllabus be assessed

•Learning outcomes is a guide to how to assess

•Use both formative and summative assessment

Guide to Assessment

Course objectives/learning outcomes

On completion of the module, the learner will be able to:  

1. Make professional judgments regarding journalism practice from a perspective of children's rights; 

2. Report fairly, accurately and in keeping with the principles of children’s rights.  

In addition, the module has the following additional objectives derived from UNICEF’s principles underpinning child rights education:  Knowledge and skills - To receive information and knowledge of children’s rights and humanitarian standards and acquire skills to apply this knowledge; Values, attitudes and behavior – To become sensitized and undergo a change in negative attitudes or reinforce positive attitudes and behavior in relation to children’s rights ; Action - taking action to defend, promote and protect children’s rights in the course of their professional duties.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module, the learner will be able to:  1) Understand and be able to outline the principle features of children’s rights as

outlined in the UNCRC 2) Read, analyze and critically evaluate the reporting of issues affecting children from a rights-based perspective   3) Critically assess the relevance and importance of editorial guidelines and codes of practice in relation to news reporting affecting children   4) Make professional judgments regarding journalism practice from a perspective of children's rights  5) Report fairly, accurately and in keeping with the principles of children’s rights

Assessment Criteria •Have students shown an understanding of children’s rights?

•Have they located the rights based elements of the programme into journalism theory and ethics?

•Can they apply what they know of children’s rights into their Journalism practice?

•Have students shown any improvement in their journalismpractice•Have students shown evidence of being able to developedstory ideas around children’s rights?

•Are they producing work that is professionally producedand error free?

•Is the work publishable?

•Have students indicated an understanding of sources and contacts associated with children’s rights and children’s issues

Print Journalism Skills

Editing Reporting Research Writing Teamwork Interviewing Photography

Digital Journalism Skills

Shooting photos Imaging production Graphics Multimedia delivery Multimedia editing/production Capturing audio Shooting video Animation & Flash PodcastingRadio

RadioEditingTelling stories for the earCreating packagesdocumentaries

Television skills

PresentationVisualsPackagesDocumentariesEditingVideo journalism

assignments for students•A book review

•A profile of a person involved in children’s rights

•News Stories

•Vox pop with children interviewed

•An editorial

•A feature or investigative piece

More assignments for students

MagazinesRadio documentaries

TV programmesMagazine programmes

Facilitating

children’s programmes and other media

Reflection central to the learning process.

Students to produce a reflective journal , which might be a diary, article, blog

Outcomes

•Better understanding of applied ethics.

•Able to apply codes of conduct.

•Able to handle sensitive stories, with sensitivity and skill.

•Able to find stories with an interesting angle.

Able to reflect the full community in stories, adults and children and their perspectives