12 Tips For The New Adviser

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TEACH AND TRAIN YOUR STAFF Review the materials listed below, decide what you should teach and what you should prepare your editors to teach. Team-building activities are a good way to start the year, and letting your editors be in charge will help them learn to organize and work efficiently with their staff. Make sure your editors know they should meet at least once a week outside of class for planning purposes. Their time in class or with the club should be devoted to helping the staff and answering questions. Look through Walsworth’s Yearbook Suite curriculum, a great resource for teaching your students the basics of design, photography, reporting, copywriting and more. Yearbook Suite has 11 units with printed student workbooks. Content is also available at yearbookhelp.com. Our “New Advisers Field Guide to Yearbook” is a complete guide to everything you need to know to oversee yearbook your first couple of years. Yearbook Suite also has an Adviser Edition that includes all 11 units plus the “First 30 Days” lesson plan for InDesign and Yearbook 360 – Online Design. The “First 30 Days” lesson plan contains the lessons and activities from the Yearbook Suite your staff should learn in the first six weeks of school. You can also find it in the Adviser Timeline in your Planning Kit and at yearbookhelp.com. Yearbookhelp.com provides Walsworth customers with the answers to any question about yearbook they may have. Access it using your Yearbook 360 username and password.

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