[SML] College to High School

[Erin Joy Swank]

I just looked up the book. Looks like a new edition is being published a
week from today, FYI, with updates (first edition was 2003).

There’s a book called “The Perfect Stage Crew,” by John Kaluta and if you
> flip through that, I think it gives a pretty good idea of what an average
> set of expectations are for a high school TD in terms of student knowledge,
> participation, etc.


Erin

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:28 AM, John McAfee via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> I second the frustrating “it depends” answer.  I spent 4 years as a high
> school TD and am in my 5th year as a college TD and I’m looking to go back
> to high school.  At the college level, I get a lot of non-majors who have
> jobs and kids and "real life” so the time and focus needed to learn how to
> build a platform with care is not there.  With high schoolers, yes,they
> were more immature, but when they were working with me, I found I had more
> of their attention.
>
> There’s also the question of administrative support and budget and private
> vs. public (both college and high school).  Since high school is a smaller
> ecosystem, I think that there can be more administrative support and it is
> easier to explain how your job is not the traditional job.  That’s harder
> to do at the college level, I’ve found.  The support in high school will
> probably not translate into a larger budget, but you might have parental
> support (theatre boosters) that can help raise money and maybe some parents
> who can act as ATD if they are interested.
>
> My experiences are also a little more apples to oranges because I was at a
> private boarding school for the high school and am at a state university
> (and not a flagship) now.
>
> There’s a book called “The Perfect Stage Crew,” by John Kaluta and if you
> flip through that, I think it gives a pretty good idea of what an average
> set of expectations are for a high school TD in terms of student knowledge,
> participation, etc.
>
> On Apr 12, 2016, at 12:47 PM, gbierly via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
> It is really going to depend on your schools, both the college and HS and
> their programs.
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> For list information see <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/>
> Stagecraft mailing list
> Stagecraft at theatrical.net
> http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net
>



-- 
Erin Joy Swank
937-308-0366 cell
Stage Manager
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://theatrical.net/pipermail/stagecraft_theatrical.net/attachments/20160412/dd787cd6/attachment.html>