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The Enjoyment of Teaching - Entertainment – Certificate III – In Live Productions, Theatre & Events (in NSW) Here I would like to share the way I deliver and I would like to swap teaching delivery ideas with other teachers – in the Public and Private systems). This is part one of a possible series and broadly covers my teaching method (and enjoyment of teaching this course). This is a VET course (Vocational Education & Training) and of course a BOS (Board of Studies NSW) endorsed course. The two year course is available to Year 11 (Preliminary HSC) and Year 12 HSC students.  The course outcome is – to sit the HSC exam and attain a Certificate III in In Live Productions, Theatre & Events. The course must be taught by an accredited teacher in the subject and the accreditation must be current. To achieve a Cert III, students must complete all competencies and the mandatory work placement hours.  Elective units although attained in competency are non-HSC examinable.   The electives however are examined in the half yearly and yearly tests. Teaching the course is a personal delight for me. I have students who ’want to be there’, as this industry is where they want to be. The course covers a wide range of interesting subjects (see subject modules) – all Entertainment industry based. This industry covering such a wide are of learning involves the students in many activities which even if they never go into the industry (more the pity), they will have life-long skills in a wide area of general knowledge. The course is also so diversified that it (with the exception of practical lessons), be delivered online. Charles Sturt University provides this and my website www.rmwebed.com.au also provides online learning for students in my classes, but has a restricted access – only for my students. The course is an indicative 240 hours and is run over two years. There is also a requirement of 70 hours (35 each year) work placement. The work placement can be completed in Year 11, to take the pressure off Year 12 studies and differing from other VET subjects is usually not done over a single bock period. In fact work placement can be spread over a number of placements varying from four hours to day blocks. Work placement is where possible teacher supervised in as much the employer is contacted by the teacher and where possible visited. This ensures the validity of the work placement and that it is industry based. For instance retail is not considered Entertainment Industry based, unless it actually involves doing an in store promotion, involving two of the following: vision, lighting and sound. Though it can be argued the competencies – Communicate in the Workplace, Diversity, Work With Others, Deal With Conflict & Resolve Complaints – are retail related as well as Entertainment, it has to be argued these competencies need to be related to the Entertainment Industry and not Retail Trading. To make my point clearer about life-time skills learned, I need to list the competencies my students study: Here are the course competencies. The core units are mandatory and the electives are selected by my school, based on what I have been trained in. Core Units Communicate in the workplace Participate in OHS processes Apply a general knowledge of vision systems to work activities Manage own work and learning Work with others Provide quality service to customers Deal with conflict and resolve complaints Source and apply entertainment industry knowledge Apply a general knowledge of audio to work activities Apply a general knowledge of staging to work activities

Elective Units (taught at my school – there is a broad range available) Apply first aid Provide seating and ticketing advice Usher patrons Provide venue information and assistance Monitor entry to a venue Work effectively with diversity Handle physical elements safely during bump in In the past I have also taught: Use hand tools Teaching the Course Part One Theory. The way I teach the course is to have all the content available off my website, as well as the Assessment Tasks. The lesson delivery is visually delivered on a data projector, where the webpages are displayed and discussed with the class. References are made to additional information the students may wish to look up. The students use their laptops to prepare their assessment tasks, using the RMWebed website as well as Google and other data websites. The students deliver their work in progress each week electronically via email for progressive assessment. The mode of assessment delivery is either in a Word Report format, or PowerPoint. Some competencies are PowerPoint, as they will be presented to class visually. Do I combine some competencies? Yes I teach some modules holistically – such as: Diversity, Conflict and Work With Others, Provide a Quality Service, in a module titled: Providing a Quality Service - Deal With Conflict - Work With Diversity. Do I spread some modules across several competences? Yes I do. Work With Others for instance runs across three competencies. Part Two – Practical I do this using a number of strategies. Firstly we do a day’s workshop at the local theatre. Here we learn Staging, Lighting and Sound practically – all hands on. We also have a fool at Front of House, as well as practical OH&S (WHS). This is a valuable day (or two half days). We also use our school’s sound desk and lighting rack, as a continuance. Also we do role plays – using pre-set character roles for Conflict, Diversity, Quality Service. Other practical experiences are attained through industry work placements. Exams We have yearly and half yearly exams. Revision is done two weeks prior the exams, where students are required to go over their electronic notes and the RMWebed website and do one page summaries of each exam topic. They then have to reduce the summaries to a bullet point ½ page for each module – as memory checks.