Mentors answer questions about mentoring program at Meet the Mentors table
Peggy Gregory and Katy Gray staff the Meet the Mentors table in the JEA Bookstore. They answer questions about the mentoring program and offer advice to new journalism teachers.
Tips to help teachers structure successful trips to journalism conventions
Attending a state, regional or national journalism convention can be a highlight of the school year for the students and teachers who attend. Preparing for a successful trip requires additional planning on the part of teachers — including booking transportation and hotel rooms, collecting permission forms, and getting travel to the event approved by the...
Advice on how to respond to students who expect an elective journalism class to be ‘fun and easy’
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentor Committee co-chair Here’s a question I received from a new journalism teacher: “I have a couple of students who have told me that because journalism is an elective, they think it should be more fun. They’re not fans of reading and writing activities, so I’m struggling a bit with trying to...
Mentoring Monday: High school summer journalism workshops develop skills and promote team building
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair High school summer journalism workshops are a great way for students — and advisers — to develop their media skills. Summer journalism workshops also can be an opportunity for leadership development for editors and team building if several students from the staff attend the workshop together. Twelve journalism...
Mentoring Monday: Newspaper staff members attend Illinois Journalism Education Association Fall Institute
For the first time, the newspaper staff of Heritage High School (Broadlands, Ill.) and their adviser, Sue Fuller, attended the IJEA Fall Institute at the University of Illinois. Carol Smith, Fuller’s JEA mentor, took this photo at the university’s student union as the group gathered before the first session. Fuller reports the staff has almost...
What are your recommendations for teacher education preparation?
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair What should a teacher education program be? All of us who are involved in the JEA Mentoring Program — committee members, mentors and mentees — should have opinions about teacher training. I’d imagine that most of us could list aspects of our own training — whether that training...
Mentoring Monday: JEA mentee included in SPLC Report story on ‘Advisers Under Pressure’
Editor’s note: JEA mentee Melissa Dixon was one of the advisers featured in an article titled “Advisers Under Pressure,” in the Spring 2011 issue of the SPLC Report, published by the Student Press Law Center. The story dealt with the challenge media advisers and their staffs experience in trying to report on the events of...
Mentoring Monday: JEA mentor helps adviser develop confidence, expand student learning opportunities
Jessica Young is newspaper and yearbook adviser at Orange Glen High School in Escondido, Calif., and one of Konnie Krislock’s JEA mentees. Here’s a Q&A with Young about her experience in the mentoring program and her advising. Q: What is your background in advising? Young: I have been advising the paper for three years and...
Mentoring Monday: Mentors give advice and also receive advice from their mentees
by Ellen Kersey Oregon Mentor As a retired English and journalism teacher, it is my joy to mentor high school advisers. I can help in so many areas, primarily writing copy and captions, and a little bit with design (not my specialty). But I hadn’t figured on actually getting help from one of the advisers...
Mentoring Monday: Journalism adviser and class at Lee High School (Huntsville, Ala.) learn InDesign to launch literary magazine
JEA Mentor Nora Stephens took this photo at Lee High School in Huntsville and provides this report. Michelle Sisson (on left), one of my mentees, is the creative writing teacher at Lee High School. Beth Pugh (on right) was my newspaper editor at Huntsville High in 1989. Beth holds a master’s in journalism and has...
Mentoring Monday: Making that last newspaper deadline at San Joaquin Memorial High School (Fresno, Calif.)
San Joaquin Memorial High School in Fresno has 650 students and is the oldest Catholic high school in California’s central valley. Their principal, Ed Borges, believes in scholastic journalism and has been effective in meeting with other disocese administrators in the area to develop a publications policy that is consistent with California Education Code laws...