Drama Teachers and Theatre Directors

Teaching Tech You Never Learned

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8 months of hands-on learning backstage skills

Looking for a technical theatre curriculum for your drama kids? Meet Teaching Tech You Never Learned: a new way to introduce the various technical theatre elements that make your drama students well rounded and your productions really shine.

This is an 8 month program of hands-on, activity-based learning. Themed units anchor the learning as students explore theatre safety, stage lighting, sound, set, costumes, makeup, publicity, and much more!

Designed for the drama teacher with a minimum of technical training or experience of their own, this text provides all the information you need to get the ball rolling, plus handouts, projects and grading rubrics.

Teaching Tech You Never Learned: 100+ pages, all 9 thematic units.

"Whether an educator is just beginning or needs a refresher course, this book is a valuable asset, providing an overview of safety protocols, equipment, systems, lesson plans and insightful tips. With the practical (and often humorous) voice of experience, Rome helps theatre educators plan and prepare technical theatre projects, and avoid crucial errors. I wish this had been available when I first started teaching!"
- Zoë Dillard, Real-World Theatre Education

Welcome to Teaching Tech You Never Learned

Are you ready for 190 days of learning?

From the co-author of Real-World Theatre Education, this is a new techncal theatre curriculum.
Fast, thorough, easy, and affordable.

Teaching Tech You Never Learned is a 9 unit curriculum designed to introduce theatre students to a variety of technical skills in a fun and exciting way. This program is project-based, hands-on, and most can be done at home. School year already begun? Teaching Tech is “evergreen” so you can start this program at any point in the year!

This program is not time consuming. Each day takes about 45 minutes. You can do one a week.

This program is not sit, listen, take notes. These activities are all about designing, doingand creating.

This program is not going to cost you an arm and a leg to set up. Most supplies are readiy available.

THIS PRODUCT LISTING IS FOR THE TEACHING TECH CURRICULUM PLUS 100+ PAGE THEATRE SAFETY GUIDE. *THIS IS NOT A PHYSICAL PRODUCT. THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT. YOU WILL RECEIVE .PDF***YOU ARE PERMITTED TO PRINT ONE COPY OF TEACHING TECH FOR PERSONAL USE, NO REDISTRIBUTION***PRINTING IN BLACK AND WHITE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR COST SAVINGS**

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What class is Teaching Tech You Never Learned designed for?

Teaching Tech is designed for adding tech into a Theatre Arts 1 class. The program is incredibly open-ended and full of opportunities to adjust the level of activities to meet the needs of your specific class.

Saddled with a combined Acting-Tech class? The book has a curriculum for handling that, too.

There are also sections for a regular Tech Theatre class and for enhancing your theatre productions as well.

What is Teaching Tech?

It’s a curriculum workbook built on simple, engaging, and activity-based learning. Each unit includes basic background information, terms, projects and a grading rubric, so it’s a 100+ page workbook with a full year of activities.

Plus, you can teach these weekly, in a semester or all year-long. Got actors and techies mixed together? There's a plan included for just such a combo curriculum. And for a regular tech class, there are advanced projects, too. Finally, you'll get valuable information for enhancing your theatre productions as well.

Here’s a look at the skills your students will be able to work with:

Set Design
Stage Lighting
Sound
Costumes
Makeup
Props
Painting
Publicity

Theatre Arts is so much more than just learning acting and theatre history. It’s about
building "context" knowledge of key skills and information that will help round out your students' knowledge of what it takes to make theatre.

These topics introduce your students to so many important and new skills and concepts, ones they may not have had exposure to yet. You may have future IATSE members right under your nose!

Introduction

Theatre Basics and Safety

Teaching tech if you're not a techie
Priorities

Theatre Arts 1 Tech Theatre Information and Lessons

Getting Started – Putting the frog in the pot

Year-at-a-Glance Overview – Weekly session version

Year-at-a-Glance Overview – Four quarter version

Stage Makeup

Old age makeup demo
Student design work and Practicum
Review sheet and quiz

Sound
Purpose and Components
Troubleshooting
Types of microphones & accessories
Sound board operation and quiz/answer key
Sound effects
Safety

Lighting

Parts and Types of lights
Lighting system and Basic Lighting Design
Lighting Design Practicum
Review sheet and quiz

Set Design Model

Background information
Project description
Grading rubrics
Information Scavenger Hunt

Costume Design
Background information
Project description
Grading rubrics

Props
Information Scavenger Hunt

Running Crew Relay Race

Purpose
Preparation
Procedure

Additional lessons

Blog
Website
Webquest

Technical Theatre 1-4
Sample Syllabus for Technical Theatre 1-4
Stage Lighting Equipment Practicum
Set Construction

Acting-Tech Combination Class Lessons

Overview
ADDIE process and Q-CARD rubric
Actors/Techies’ Script Analysis
Voice/Sound
Movement/Lighting
Auditioning/Publicity and Marketing
Characterization/Costumes
Stage Business/Props
Acting/Designing for different stage spaces
Makeup/Paint

Upgrading the Tech in Your Shows

Raising the tech bar
Front-loading
Delegation and leadership
Accountability and planning

Tech Equipment, Tips and Tricks

Lighting
Sound
Set
Props
Costumes
Makeup
Scene painting
Design
Running Crew

Conclusion