TROY Motto, 1887 - Troy University
TROY Motto, 1887 - Troy University
TROY Motto, 1887 - Troy University
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COVINGTON’S LEGACY OF MENTORING<br />
By Dr. Barbara Toner<br />
How, then, do mentors transmit wisdom Most often, it seems, they take us on a journey.<br />
In this aspect of their work, mentors are guides. They lead us along the journey of our lives.<br />
We trust them because they have been there before. They embody our hopes, cast light on the way ahead,<br />
interpret arcane signs, warn us of lurking dangers, and point out unexpected delights along the way.<br />
There is a certain luminosity about them, and they often pose as magicians in tales of transformation,<br />
for magic is a word given to what we cannot see—and we can rarely see across the gulf.<br />
As teachers of adults, we have much to learn from the mythology of the mentor.<br />
~ Daloz, pp. 18 & 19<br />
Auvronette Guillbeaux of <strong>TROY</strong>’s Covington, Ga. location, (pictured with Dr.<br />
Barbara Toner) receives the 2012 ‘Adjunct Instructor of the Year Award’.<br />
As instructors at <strong>Troy</strong> Global Campus, we have the<br />
privilege of working with adult learners, many of whom<br />
enter with feelings of inadequacy and anxiety, yet come<br />
to us with hope to obtain something they have missed –<br />
a college education. Many of them have sent their own<br />
children to college or currently have children in college,<br />
but have felt unworthy to take the same path. It is up<br />
to us, not only to offer them academic understandings,<br />
but to see the promise in each of them; and more<br />
importantly, to help them see it, too. If we can succeed<br />
in that task, if we can light the way for them to succeed,<br />
we find that many of them go on to further their<br />
education in their chosen field of study. We are not only<br />
instructors, but guides on their journey through life, and<br />
like the Statue of Liberty, we too lift our lamps before<br />
the golden shore of a better tomorrow. The journey of<br />
one such student comes to mind: Auvronette Guillbeaux.<br />
~ continued on next page<br />
Pathways<br />
Workshops<br />
JUN<br />
Reading<br />
Specialist<br />
AUG<br />
2001<br />
Education & Human Resources<br />
Directorate Education<br />
Development Center<br />
JUL<br />
Collaborative Teacher<br />
Certification Program<br />
JUL<br />
Technology<br />
in Motion<br />
JUL<br />
Governor’s<br />
Child Day Care<br />
Safety Grant<br />
OCT<br />
Wiregrass<br />
Math and Science<br />
Consortium<br />
OCT<br />
Educate the mind to think, the heart to feel, the body to act. ~ <strong>TROY</strong> <strong>Motto</strong>, <strong>1887</strong><br />
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