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Resource overview and purpose
Resource overview and purpose
This site includes resources to support schools and individual teachers in the lighting support often required in a school setting for various events and programs including:
school assemblies
presentation day
guest speaker presentations
parent information sessions
music, art, dance and drama nights
school concert
school musical
visual art exhibitions
HSC music, dance or drama performances
external performances for students.
How to use this professional learning resource
How to use this professional learning resource
Select the area that you need to develop your knowledge, understanding and skills and navigate the information.
There are template documents provided as a resource for you to reproduce and use in your school.
For further assistance or inquiry please contact The Arts Unit.
Australian professional standards for teachers
6.2.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities.
Information for logging this into ETAMs towards your professional learning hours.
Activity name – TAU Event technical support
Activity type – Professional reading
PD Type – Teacher identified
Duration -
Standards – 6.2.2
How did this activity address the standard descriptors? – Developing knowledge on how to use technical production equipment effectively for a school assembly or arts event. The Arts Unit developed this resource to upgrade the knowledge and skills of teachers in the specific areas of safety, lighting, audio, staging ad video streaming.
Lighting equipment
Lighting equipment
Lighting operations guide
Lighting operations guide
Lighting production documentation
Lighting production documentation
Further resources
Further resources
Additional support resources are available through The Arts Unit to improve the knowledge, understanding and skills of teachers to confidently and effectively manage all technical areas for school events.
Select the following resources to explore them further.
Downloadable document and feedback
Downloadable document and feedback
Third-party content attributions
Third-party content attributions
Anna Warr or other TAU photographer
Schools Spectacular images 1-4, photographer: Anna Warr.
Art Express, Operation Art etc
[Title of the artwork], © [Name of student], [Year published], reproduced and communicated with permission.
The Shark, © Sue Dawson, 2016, reproduced and communicated with permission.
Creative commons or other images that need attribution - use Open Attribution Builder
"Mr. Mouse" by Birdies100 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Our images
Visual arts activity 1 images, Photographer: Sue Dawson.
Our Kids
Girl in Garden 1-4, © Sue Dawson, 2020, reproduced and communicated with permission. Provided all acknowledgements are retained, these images may be reproduced free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes within Australia only.
Content from artists already licensed with TAU
[Title of work with source link if possible], © [Copyright owner], [Year published], reproduced and communicated with permission.
Lord of the Flies II, © James Powditch, 2007, reproduced and communicated with permission.
section 113P
[Title of work with source link if possible], [Creator], © [Copyright owner], [Year published], copied under s113P, accessed [dd mmm yyyy].
Butterfly Effects, © James Powditch, 2007, copied under s113P, accessed 24 May 2020.
Over the Rainbow, songwriters: E.Y. Harburg / Harold Arlen, lyrics: © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Conexion Media Group, Inc, copied under s113P, accessed 21 September 2019.
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