Sitting here in my chair enjoying basketball and the last day of my spring break, I will be honest I would like a couple more days of this. I'm not ready to go back to school. I know there are many students out there on Monday that will be thinking I was ready to come back. How little they know. I'm not really ready. Like my students I would love to have a few more days.
Guess it is time to look forward to the week ahead and what I have plan. I plan on doing something a little different with my yearbook staff this week. I will have to see how this goes. They are used to coming in and working on their pages, but on Wednesday I am going to give them an evaluation sheet and have them look over the other pages that have been finished. There are are couple of reasons I am doing this. One I want them to see what the others have been working on, but second I would like another set of eyes to look over the pages. I have been looking at these pages numerous times and I still find little things that need to be corrected. I have even found on one page where we totally forgot to list the players and coaches and I don't remember how many times I have looked at that page and not noticed the names were missing.
Since this is something totally different for the staff, it will be interesting to see how it goes. They have had this same routine all year, with the exceptions of handing out pictures and or working picture day.
I have already decided that I am going to talk to my staff on Monday to give them a heads up about Wednesday. That way when they come in on Wednesday it won't be such a shock. I think they will be just fine, but I understand it is hard for students to change things up when we have had this routine all year.
Shannon, I think your rationale for this new review/editing procedure is strong, and I enjoyed seeing it in action today. I hope you'll make this a regular part of your students' work, so they can provide more constructive feedback for their peers, learn from their peers' work, and take some of the burden off you when it comes to editing copy/layout. Keep up the good work!
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