United Yearbook has created an instructional guide with YOU in mind. We want to ensure you are prepared and feel supported as the year progresses. It is a robust, malleable curriculum that provides helpful assistance, suggestions, and links to many resources. It may appear overwhelming at first glance but do not dismay. You will find what you need, and we are always happy to provide any assistance if needed.
Understanding Standards
The state of California has specific standards and requirements which we have incorporated into this curriculum. In the beginning, take a moment to review the CA Visual Arts Standards and Enduring Understandings and become familiar with them. After you have examined the overall objectives, you will observe the way we have broken down the objectives into manageable pieces.
Flexible curriculum options
We understand how busy you are and the limited schedule you face, so we have helped you with lesson planning by determining the most important topics and methods of implementation. Step-by-step recommendations explain the overview and purpose statements. Topics are arranged to fit the calendar schedule, all to create the finished, beautifully crafted, creative yearbook. At a glance, you will see the lesson plans and learning activities that excite you the most. Remember, there are hidden gems everywhere! To put the "frosting on the cake," we have completed a materials list that spells out the necessary ingredients to complete the lesson plans. This allows your students to realize the optimal learning experience and succeed.
We want you to feel relieved!
Again, the curriculum is meant to work FOR you. One of the dynamic ways this curriculum goes above and beyond is that you get to MENTOR your students. Lessons are geared toward mentorship, including steps to develop student leadership, and shared decision-making. The lessons produce fun, interactive, cooperative communication between students, student leaders and peers, and students with their advisers/mentors. Assessment rubrics and advanced organizers keep you on track and provide a fair, just grading system.
Robust resources
At some point, you may be unable to guide your students in computer literacy skills or figure out how to pull together inspiring learning activities. Textbooks can be boring and full of drab illustrations. This curriculum is filled with informative links to resources, interactive group tasks, and projects that enhance skills.
Curriculum presentations
To make the guides more accessible, you have the option to choose curriculum presentations that draw from our instructional guides These are presentations that directly address the students and give instruction. Each presentation includes helpful resources to keep students engaged! These are downloadable and customizable! You can add to or take away any of the slides we’ve included.
We have workshops and podcasts, too!
You cannot be all things to your students. No one can. But if you have the opportunity to undergird and strengthen the lessons and mentoring you pour into your students, why not take it? Our workshops and master classes are another outlet for exploring creativity, dreaming and planning, and developing unity and cooperation to produce an extraordinary yearbook. Listen to our recent podcast series with Lucy McHugh, who walks you through our instructional guides and how to implement them step-by-step during the first few weeks of school. Subscribe and follow along at @yearbooknews.
It would be a privilege to serve you this upcoming year.
United Yearbook offers blogs on a wide range of topics. In addition, there are resources such as curriculum, and year-round workshops on this and other areas. Make sure to subscribe to our blog and our newsletter, and visit our website at www.unitedyearbook.net & our resource store to learn more! United Yearbook is available to assist you throughout the school year including summer break.
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Editor: Donna Ladner obtained a B.A. in Education and a minor in English from California Baptist University, and a M.S. in ESL from USC, Los Angeles. After she married Daniel, their family moved to Indonesia with a non-profit organization and lived cross-culturally for 15 years before returning to the U.S in 2012. Donna has been working as an editor and proofreader for TSE Worldwide Press and its subsidiary, United Yearbook since 2015.
Contributor: Lucy McHugh comes to United Yearbook Printing from a 39-year career in public and private school education. She was a former visual art teacher and yearbook adviser. She received a Bachelors of Science in Art from Columbia College in Columbia, SC, a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Nebraska in 2000, and in 2014 earned a Certificate in Catholic School Leadership from Loyola Marymount University. Lucy enjoys her family, making art and gardening.
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