New JEA mentors learn strategies to use in their work with new media advisers
Envisioning what makes a quality teacher, new mentor Vicki Brennan from Florida explains her group’s list of what this teacher would feel about students or instruction. The new mentors are participating in training at the JEA Advisers Institute. The JEA mentor training incorporates many of the active learning strategies used by the New Teacher Center‘s...
New mentors training at JEA Advisers Institute in Las Vegas
Mentor training is underway at the JEA Advisers Institute in Las Vegas. New Wyoming mentor Katherine Patrick and new Nebraska mentor Bob Bair sort possible strategies for helping new teachers. The mentor trainers are Mentor Committee members Linda Barrington, Bill Flecthner and Gary Lindsay. – Linda Barrington reporting from the training session...
Mentors meet with Outreach Academy participants in Denver
Mentors and Mentor Committee members joined the participants in the Outreach Academy for lunch at the JEA/NSPA Convention in Denver. The JEA Outreach Academy is a program to provide training and support for new high school and middle school media advisers. Some are new teachers, and some are experienced teachers but new to working with student...
Snowing in Denver
Snowing in Denver. Mentor Carmen Wendt took this photo during a break in the Mentor Forum when she went for coffee.
Mentor Forum provides full day of training and sharing
The Mentoring Forum, held at the JEA/NSPA Convention in Denver, provided a full day of workshop activities for the mentors. Activities included brainstorming sessions, sessions on InDesign and Photoshop, and a discussion of two readings about mentoring. Mentors participated in a Fishbowl sharing session and then brainstormed several ways the mentors could use that technique with mentees...
Mentor Forum includes software training for InDesign and Photoshop
Gary Lindsay showed the mentors strategies in using InDesign and Photoshop. Both software programs are standards in high school media programs. The nine mentors attending the Mentor Forum in Denver learned several time savers for using those programs to help them in their own computer use and in offering advice to their menthes.
Mentor Forum provides opportunity for professional development at JEA/NSPA Convention in Denver
The Mentor Forum will be going on today at the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association Convention in Denver. Lots of mentoring strategies and technology tips will be shared by the mentors who are attending. The mentors, many of whom who have been working together for more than five years, also will have the opportunity to hear about...
JEA mentors work with new advisers at JEA/NSPA convention in Washington, D.C.
Members of the JEA Mentoring program met with Outreach participants during the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention being held in Washington, D.C. The goal of the team meeting was to provide an opportunity for the new advisers and the JEA mentors to talk about how to successfully work with school administrators. In addition...
Meet the new 2014 JEA mentors
by Bill Flechtner JEA Mentoring Committee For the first time, new JEA mentors were trained as a part of the JEA Advisers Institute in Las Vegas in July. Previously, mentors had been trained at the JEA/NSPA conventions. Linda Barrington and I led the training session in Las Vegas. Here is an introduction to the mentors,...
New 2014 JEA mentors train at JEA Advisers Institute
Five of the cohort of new JEA mentors arrived in Las Vegas for the new mentor training. From left to right: Sue Farlow (North Carolina), Phyllis Cooper (North Carolina), Carol Eanes (North Carolina), Nancy Olson (Vermont) and Stan Zoller (Illinois). Mike Riley (Wyoming) is not pictured, as his flight had been delayed. The mentors got...