My students have overcome the stereotype that at-risk means that you can't be successful in and out of the classroom. I have created a student-driven yearbook club this year. My students will use their creativity, leadership, organizational, and journalism skills in order to make an impressive yearbook for their peers.
My students have the drive and initiative to make them great journalists. However, they don't have the resources to be successful photographers. It is my goal that I can make it possible for to have an opportunity to feel like they can be apart of something positive and creative.
My students will learn teamwork and organizational skills by working on our yearbook and other media projects. Our school encourages all students to be involved in student-led projects that benefit our school and surrounding community, and they often surprise us with their innovative ideas and desire to assist others.
Students will be utilizing digital cameras to document the school year to publish in the annual yearbook. They will attend multiple school events including guest speakers, educational field-trips, National Honor Society community service projects, and our city's annual Christmas parade to document with high quality photos that will be uploaded to our yearbook design program and other media projects.
In Their Own Words
Our goal for this project is to have working cameras and SD cards for our yearbook staff, so we can capture memories for our school. We want to make a really awesome yearbook this year with clear pictures that our class can look back on years to come. Our cameras that we have currently are in very poor condition and do not work properly.
With this opportunity, I feel like it will give us the chance to learn more about photography and even encourage/help out others in the process of taking pictures. It will teach us how to organize and work together on the yearbook in a collaborative way. We will also learn how to see a project through from start to finish.
This project is important to the school community because with taking pictures, we’re able to make our yearbook to hold on to memories forever! It will give us the opportunity to make a yearbook this year. A lot of students were disappointed last year, because we didn't have the resources to make a yearbook, so those memories will be lost.
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