Mentoring Monday: Help your mentees make plans to attend JEA/NSPA convention in San Antonio
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Now’s the time to be making arrangements to attend the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention in San Antonio, Nov. 15-18. JEA mentors, you can play a major role in making a trip to the convention possible for your mentees and their students. 1) Make your mentees...
Mentoring Monday: 3 challenges for new teachers
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair New teacher Julia Bethe welcomed more than her third graders to her classrom at Orange River Elementary School in Fort Myers, Fla. A reporter and photographer from The News-Press were there for Bethe’s first day with her students and will be following her through her first year. Not...
Mentoring Monday: The Mentor Toolbox — I Love the Collaborative Assessment Log
By Linda Barrington, MJE JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair, JEA Wisconsin mentor One of the things I like best about the JEA Mentor Program is its emphasis on tailoring each mentoring experience to the needs of the individual mentee. Even though I may not have experienced the same situations and struggles as each of them, I...
Mentoring Monday: ASPA’s Long Weekend provides opportunity for advisers to share expertise to improve student media
Connie Nolen, an adviser from Pelham High School (Pelham, Ala.), spent nearly two hours of nonstop instruction at a University of Alabama campus eatery, counseling JEA mentee Tyrone Jones on all aspects of literary magazine advising. The meeting was arranged by JEA mentor Marie Parsons, on the recommendation of another mentee, Melissa Dixon, who has...
Mentoring Monday: Guide to Broadcast and Video now available
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair Good news for broadcast and video advisers. Members of the JEA Digital Media Committee have created a Guide to Broadcast and Video to be a resource for advisers who are working broadcast or video. The guide is set up in sections that make it easy to find the...
Mentoring Monday: How writing an essay could win classroom set of The Wall Street Journal
Here’s a competition that Journalism Education Association mentees may be interested in – with the winner receiving a classroom set of The Wall Street Journal. Linda Shockley, Dow Jones News Fund deputy director, sends this information: For the fourth consecutive year, media teachers can compete to win a year’s classroom subscription to The Wall Street...
Mentoring Monday: New Online Resource TED-Ed
by Digital Judy JEA Mentoring Committee An announcement for a new learning site from TED Talks called TED-Ed looks interesting. The idea behind TED-Ed takes videos from TEDTalks or YouTube and “flips” them for the students. Just so you are comfortable with the verb flip you should know that: “Flip” is meant to indicate that...