Stage Design: Developing Creative Design Practice
Free, in-person certified CPD for secondary and FE teachers, exploring practical approaches to teaching design through stage design.
About this CPD
This free, in-person certified CPD is part of the Royal Ballet & Opera’s award-winning Design programme, a curriculum-led teacher development programme.
The session is designed for secondary and FE teachers looking to develop their students’ iterative design practice and explore approaches that can be applied across Design & Technology and Creative Arts courses.
Led by designers from the Royal Ballet & Opera, the session will introduce practical techniques for teaching stage design, helping students to develop skills in research, creative problem-solving, sketching, model-making and prototyping.
Using creative world-building as a context, the session will explore how professional design processes can be brought into the classroom to support creative thinking, iteration and the development of ideas.
During the session, you will:
- Explore how ideation techniques can be used to rapidly generate ideas, make connections and respond to a creative brief.
- Try practical techniques for modelling rigid and flexible structures when developing prototypes.
- Explore free classroom resources that support students through the design process, from the initial creative brief through to final design, including the Royal Ballet & Opera’s KS5 Design Challenge.
- Consider how these approaches can be applied across a range of Design & Technology and Creative Arts courses.
Who is this CPD for?
This session is suitable for:
- Design & Technology and Creative Arts teachers or subject leads interested in taking part in the Royal Ballet & Opera’s KS5 Design Challenge.
- Design & Technology and Creative Arts teachers or subject leads looking to develop their design teaching practice.
- Teachers who are new to teaching design for performance.
- Teachers looking to refresh or extend their practical design skills.
“Helped with creative thinking, ideas generation and the design process.”
No prior knowledge of ballet, opera or stage design is required.
If you have any access requirements, please email schools@roh.org.uk.
RBO Schools CPD is funded to support teachers and schools in accessing high-quality creative learning opportunities. The programme is supported by Arts Council England, the Mohn Westlake Foundation and other charitable donors committed to creative education.
Please gain appropriate permissions prior to booking a place.
If you have booked a place and are subsequently unable to attend, please cancel your booking through your account. This enables the RBO to offer the place to another teacher or school.