Missouri mentee earns state-wide recognition
Leigh Rogers, a fifth-year publications adviser and English teacher at Hermann High School, Hermann, Missouri has been honored as a promising journalism educator. She advises the Paragon Yearbook and The Blue Review newspaper https://www.thebluereview.info. Beginning in 2017 the Missouri Interscholastic Press Association has recognized promising new journalism educators with the Emerging Journalism Educator of the Year Award....
Mentors earn national recognition
Four current JEA mentors have recently been awarded national recognition. Casey Nichols, Konnie Krislock and Stan Zoeller were announced as winners of JEA’s Lifetime Achievement Awards. While serving on JEA’s awards committee Casey Nichols, MJE, had the honor of introducing JEA Lifetime Achievement honorees, and now presumably, someone else will be the one to say...
Update on changes in communicating, reporting, filing
JEA Mentoring has recently made a number of significant changes in the way Mentors need to communicate. Mentoring Chair Patrick Johnson said thet there were a number of reasons for making these changes: JEA is transitioning as an organization to Google Suites; Mentoring will be the first group to move there. Increased organization and the...
Mentor reporting update
Fall Semester report deadline is Feb. 15 Mentoring chair Patrick Johnson has recently reminded us that we need to report our Mentoring activities for first semester no later than Feb. 15, 2019. Links to the forms To do so, we need to complete this form for each one of our mentees. Additionally, Patrick will use...
New coaching standards tweaked
As part of today’s Mentor Forum at the JEA Fall Convention in Chicago, a session focused on coaching as part of teacher support. The JEA Mentor Program training is based on material from the world-renowned New Teacher Center training. So it was appropriate for the Chicago Mentor Forum to review a portion of the newly...
Procedures for Mentor, Mentee enrollment updated
The procedures that JEA Mentors and Mentees need to follow to enroll and renew in the program have been updated. This includes the procedures for getting free JEA memberships for mentees. The process is outlined and explained in detail on the Becoming a JEA Mentor or Mentee page on Mentoring Matters. This static page will...
Mentor reports due June 30
Mentors will be using two forms for submitting their spring semester and end of the year reports. The reports are due June 30, and must be completed before semester stipends can be processed. The first report, the Spring Mentor Report Form has been slightly revised from the one that mentors submitted last fall. Mentors need...
Just Published: Spring 2018 Mentoring Matters
One of the hottest trends in scholastic journalism is the focus of the cover story in the Spring 2018 issue of Mentoring Matters newsletter. Sports journalism is a small but growing addition to the traditional offerings of scholastic journalism, a trend visible in new course titles and in the promotions of summer media workshops. Read...
Mentor reporting for second semester
Thank you all for completing the new End of Semester form for mentor reports for Fall 2017 semester. I hope you found the process workable for you. On the committee’s end, it is proving to be a much more effective way to access your reports. If you have any comments or suggestions on the process,...
Best practices for teacher induction
With a nation-wide teacher shortage looming on the horizon, educators should be asking if there is a set of best practices for effectively bringing new teachers into our schools. Is there a best way to bring teachers into the profession? The question has been answered affirmatively by an old friend of JEA Mentoring, the New...
Using the Google form to file Semester Reports
JEA Mentors, please use the new Google form to report your semester’s mentoring activities. The form will help you organize your information. The information will automatically go to JEA Mentoring, but there is no easy way to direct this to your SPA or others you wish to have the information. Because of this, we recommend...
Fall issue of Mentoring Matters Newsletter
The fall 2017 edition of Mentoring Matters includes: New mentors hone their mentoring skills Meet the 2017 class of mentors Mentoring committee share program responsibilities Best advice from my mentors Mentee exit surveys show how mentoring helped them Click on this link to download the issue as a PDF — Mentoring Matters Fall 2017 for web...