I'd had lots of training as a journalist. Indeed it started at the University of New Hampshire, when I took the same newswriting class in 1972 that I was now being asked to teach in 2001. In the same classroom, even. Talk about coming full circle. Good teachers not only impart knowledge, they inspire and motivate.
Good managers do the same.
I fretted about a three-way marriage of a life in journalism, managing people and teaching. I gathered some syllabuses that other newswriting professors had used, and I adapted what I liked into my own approach and personality. I vetted some of my ideas with the teaching veterans. I sought the advice of Don Murray, now retired, who founded the journalism program at UNH and taught me. Help them find their pace, learn from them, he advised, some will catch on more quickly than others.