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Part 1 A Class Yearbook ~ An Overview The Yearbook

Why is it worth doing?

Part 2 Hands-on Examination of Class Yearbooks

Part 3 How To Make a Class Yearbook Organization: September Set-up

Basic Yearbook Content: art, photos & writing

Portfolio Building

Production: June Wrap-up

Part 4 Take Another Look

One-on-one Q&A, look at other yearbooks

N.B. Questions & Comments are encouraged throughout presentation

Basic yearbook Copy to Library, admin

Common content

35 to 50 pages double-sided

Student copy – 1 for each student in the class

Yearbook & Student work portfolio

Class copy – keep in class in future years

Yearbook & Class portfolio

– exemplars such as speeches, monologues, Reading Logs etc.

Teacher copy

Yearbook & Teacher portfolio

Dear Miss Berndl letters

Thank you notes, mementos

Professional Portfolio, Long Range Plans, extra photos etc

Photographs – of students

Writing – by students

Art – by students

Publishing – by teacher with student assistance

Write

Produce artwork

Collect work samples in Work Files

Type up work – part of keyboarding / computer / word processing

Colour in cover

Do assignments

Grade dependent: Depending on skill level

– coordinating & producing

-Its all up to you – but they value it more if they do the work

Money

-Pay

-Fund raise

-Collect money from other students

-Get advertising

Set up logistics

-student work files, timing of assignments, copying art workk

Integrate yearbook assignments into curriculum

-Use skills students have, decide which 2D projects would fit in back of yearbook

Take pictures

Lead - Assign tasks, decide what students are capable of

Encourage – Team build, tell kids WE CAN DO THIS

Coordinate - Pull it all together

Do - Anything that students can’t do

Fix - Anything that needs to get done but wasn’t

Notice the handwriting to make up for faded printing, the streaks in the photocopies

Technology improves & our expectations get higher

There is only so much time.

Mistakes happen.

Remember:

The process is more important than the product.

Your outcome (the yearbook) reflects the reality of real learning. Yes, sometimes the process is messy & compromises had to be made.

Yes, it could have been better.

Yes, you ran out of time.

BUT – Yes, you have a product the kids will be happy with & proud of.

There is always next year.

Class Yearbook / School Yearbook

Main focus: The FabFours / Gr. 8s, intermediates

About Fab Fours : All pages / 2 pages

Photos : Many pages / only 5 Jr. teams

Covers designed by students / unlikely gr. 4 winner

Art & writing every student / little or none

Work part of curriculum, in class / extra-curricular

Student role: Every student / select few, club

Teacher Reward: works for self & own class / works for others

What’s in it for me? What will I spend my energy & time on?

This is a project worth doing.

Story: Krista & Daniel

Memories - Kids love reading about themselves & those in their immediate world

Personal Work Portfolio

Sense of pride

Feeling special

Purposeful year end work – June

Meaningful culminating project

Opportunity to apply skills to something that will last

Teamwork – learn to work on a project bigger than themselves

It is nice to be appreciated

Memories – for you

Hard to keep track of who was when & what when you’ve been at it for a long time.

Strut Your Stuff

A reminder to Admin about all that we do.

A place to keep all of your mementos.

Memories are important but they don’t really belong in with your family scrapbooks.

Source: Dr. K Wolf, University of Colorado quoted by Scholastic
What a Professional Portfolio Should Contain * Yearbook

Background Information

resumé

background information on teacher and teaching context *

educational philosophy and teaching goals *

Artifacts Documenting an Extended Teaching Activity

overview of unit goals and instructional plan *

list of resources used in unit

two consecutive lesson plans

videotape of teaching *

student work examples *

evaluation of student work

reflective commentary by the teacher

additional units/lessons/student work as appropriate *

Professional Information

list of professional activities *

letters of recommendation *

formal evaluations *

Read avidly by all

Informs reader of “class culture” & program content

Connects students to older schoolmates

Class Portfolio can include exemplars:

Speeches

Historical Fiction Monologues

Reading Logs

Only brought samples from the last 8 years 1999 – 2006

20 copies to look at

More time to examine them in Part 4

Reminder about TIME:

Part 1 A Class Yearbook ~ An Overview 12:45 – 1:30

Part 2 Hands-on Examination 1:30 – 2 pm

BREAK – 15 minutes

Part 3 How To Make a Class Yearbook 2:15 – 3:00

Part 4 Take Another Look 3:00 – 3:30

20 COPIES 2006(4), 2005(2), 2004(2),2003(4), 2002(2),2001(2),2000(1), 1999(3)

Organization: September
Set-up

. Number students

. Set up a filing system SHOW bin

. Tell students in class we will be making a yearbook

. Have old yearbooks available to be read by students

. On long range plans indicate which 2-D products would lend themselves to be included in yearbook at the back

Copy of this checklist also in handout at end.

Plan Ahead

Products from in-school activities

Showcases skills & applied learning

Each student represented

Focus on activities of the class – the students are the stars

Written in 3rd person

70 - 100 words

Likes, dislikes

Nickname

Known for

Favourite colour, number, food, activity

Pet peeve

When you grow up – job, do, family, live where?

Articles

Prescribed writing

About 40 – 150 words

Length of article varies with how much there is to say

5 articles must be written

At least 1 published

I Remember When

40 – 150 words

3 written, 1 published

Something that has happened in the past

Vivid memory – happy, sad, lasting

Write about own mishaps, not others

Can be anonymous

Tells you that they know the class routines & what is important to the teacher

Advice to Grade 4 Gonna Bees

Students given free choice as to what to write

10 items

Advice can be given in June to next year’s students in a “loot bag”

. Use as a filler on pages with artwork

. Flexible writing assignment near end of year – no need to be evaluated

Happens from March on

Done at home

Art assignment

Design criteria

Original student art

Class votes on best designs

1st place – Front cover

2nd place – Back cover

All of the covers you have seen today are winners

Cover design used as title page in Personal Work section

. Allow to vote for more than 1 or 2 so that they can vote for themselves or a friend & then also the one they think is good

. Photocopy at about 45 – 50%

Any 2D art will do that can be photocopied into B&W

. You can tell a lot about program just by looking at the details

. Everyone loves to look at pictures & they all look for themselves first

. Photos trigger memories

. The biggest “problem” is that cost does not allow us to produce the final product in colour Types of photos:
grad photos

Colour photos used as dividers

Photo collages

portraits

Field trips

Earth Day

Tree Planting

Clubs or teams you or your students are involved in.

Staff students are in most contact with

Give kids opportunity to remember staff who were important to them that year – not just the homeroom teacher

Admin

Office

Library

French

Rotary

Outdoor activities

Skating

Snowshoeing

Presentations

Drama

Poetry Recitals

Historical Fiction Monologues

Indigo Night

Parents participating in activities

To thank those who come in the class to work as well as to be entertained

To encourage students to get their parents to volunteer

To make parents feel welcome

. Students get used to doing a “set” of photos – line up in front of chalk board – efficient – 5 min.

. 2nd copy could be used for HJ

Make parents feel welcome in the class

Acknowledge the effort it takes to take time off work

Science Fair

When others invited into the class

Projects

Science

Social Studies

List of items included in Student Work Portfolio

Collection of 2D products of year’s work

Copy at end of handout

Complete any missing assignments for portfolio from year

Type up as many written assignments in computer lab

Write poetry for inclusion in yearbook

Do extra writing/drawing assignments related to Word Study & Graphic Organizer skills Fix Up – finish, fix art work, complete incomplete projects ***important – good motivator – will be “published”, bound into own personal yearbook copy

Colour in front & back cover of own yearbook copy

Organize artefacts in Work File in desired order

When all is done, volunteer to be on the yearbook committee

List of items that need to be completed in June

Students are able to monitor their own progress

Back section of each individual yearbook

“Keepsake”

Samples of student achievement at that grade level

One of the best parts of how my classroom s laid out

Super use of photos – get used every day

Students at a glance

Sense of belonging

Source of individualized photos for personal section of yearbook

Reflects current activity

Kids love pictures of themselves

Connects visitors to room with students in class

. Halloween

. Use to decorate door if there is a contest

. Tie in with Medieval Studies – gargoyles

. Tie in with B&W sketches of gargoyles

Dress Up Opportunities

Feast – History

Early Civilization

Viet Nam

Novel Character

Teacher is Editor-at-Large

-Not a democracy – unless you want it to be – more like a benign dictatorship -Teacher takes kids through the steps – minimal choices & then only for finite aspects

Students help skills permitting

*Parent volunteers only if there is a surplus – prefer them working with kids as adult listeners

Yearbook Committee – title for students taking on responsibilities

Editors-in-Training

Photocopy, cut & paste

Odds & ends

Money

Have yearbook printed

Bind student Work Portfolio into back of individual’s copy

Make up Library copy, Teacher’s Personal copy & Class copy

. Recognizes those who worked on yearbook

. Note spelling mistake corrected in red

– it’s OK to make mistakes

– modeling confidence to students

– poor spelling is OK as long as you fix it

. Red check mark reminds them of what I do when I mark work

. Student designed but EB brought it together through graphics

Overview of year & yearbook

Remind parents/ readers that this is a student produced yearbook – not intended to be perfect

Decisions to be made about colour

Yes it is nice but…

. Cost – expensive - $1/page – 2 minimum

. Set Up - Glue up on coloured card stock

. Squeeze as many colourful pictures per page as you can

Story

. Student whose parents were so thrilled she won the cover competition, they paid for all of the blurbs & cover to be in colour (1999 #7) . Teacher who followed my outline but whose husband worked for Xerox & all pages colour free of charge

. Source – oldest OSR pics

. Always popular

. Hard to get photos that don’t have to be returned

. Labour intensive

Optional – leave to the end – often doesn’t get done

Colour copies always great – just expensive

This year I went over budget because I included this page – money out of my own pocket. I don’t believe it should be that way. I did not factor in some of the cost of having to redo some of the photocopies. Story: Staples the last Sunday before the last week. Leaving things to the last minute. Poor copy quality.