<div dir="ltr">Scott wrote:<div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><<<<10 years teaching HS.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">10 years teaching College.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If I had a choice between the two, and if they had the same equipment &</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">funding, I'd likely take the HS job. I've had some great college students</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">and some great HS students.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">A big difference is teaching hours. Steady days/weeks of teaching in HS</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">regardless of production schedule. No "class is cancelled to build the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">show.">>>>></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div><br></div><div>Finishing my seventh year as a high school TD. At my position, I'm constantly called for event after event after event. No such thing as a regular schedule for me, and it's on top of our production schedule. Not trying to disagree with what Scott wrote, but at least here where I work, I have a very hard time trying to guard my class hours. The whole school also only had two weeks with an unmodified schedule this year....</div><div><br></div><div>To open it back up to a broader topic, my experience with teaching high school is that you are in a constant battle with the kids for their time, which is overcommitted with other rehearsals, clubs, homework, etc. You'll find the same issue in college, but depending on the program, the majors may be a more focused pool of students. I personally miss the collaborative nature of putting on a show- here it's just me and the director, so we wear all the design hats as well. At the college level, you are more likely to be working in concert with more adults with training and experience- something that I miss.</div><div><br></div><div>Parents helping out and theatre boosters is both a blessing and a curse. Great to have an extra pair of hands driving people around, but bad when the parents believe they outrank you. Funding will be determined by the school itself and not whether it's high school or college, so you have to research each program individually for that.</div><div><br></div><div>Biggest difference may not be between high school and college itself, but how the school structures its program. In terms of long term career, I'd be inclined to think that the college experience would get you further. I find that I have to explain that while I work at a high school, what that means is I'm running an arts center, a scene shop, 2 theatre spaces and our chapel. So if I'm scanning through resumes and doing a quick sort, I'm more likely to have an idea of what experience a college TD has and would have to dig to see what experience the high school TD has- there's a lot more range at the high school level.</div><div><br></div><div>-Tim</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">
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<div>Timothy Nielsen</div>
<div>Episcopal High School</div>
<div>Technical Director</div>
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