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Originally Posted by willmanc
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I've taught myself a lot through reading, and going to see local performances and professional shows. I just don't feel that I can keep the level of performance where they are expected to be by designing myself... and I am not comfortable in teaching my students elements of design. I would hate to teach them the wrong thing and find out in college that I was wrong...
Where is the new members section?
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I think you're selling yourself short. You've seen lots of shows, and read much about design/production. The fact that you've never taken a "college
theatre design course" should not stop you from teaching what you've read and experienced. (For a list of books to consider, go
here.) The New Member Board is
here. You may actually be doing your students a disservice by concentrating on the technical rather than the artistic. Young, eager minds need to be encouraged to explore both. Perhaps you can recruit your school's art teacher to discuss such design elements as line, shape, form, color and motif. You can't really "teach them the wrong thing" as there are really no "right" answers. If you haven't already, I recommend reading and suggesting to your students the book
Scene Design and Stage Lighting
by W. Oren Parker,
purchase here.
Feel free to use ControlBooth as a resource. As you've seen we love to offer advice, and often the "debates" turn out to be more interesting and informative than the original question. Advise your students to join also. We promise not to tell them you don't know everything!
I feel as a high school teacher who cares about the quality of education of his students you are to be revered, and we will offer any and all assistance we possibly can. By the way, what
is your primary subject matter? Industrial Arts? Science? English?