Teaching Photography in Practice: Curriculum Design, Lesson Planning, and Assessment

The practical-craft course of the Light and Composition University's Master of Education in Photography. Built on the Dean's book on the anatomy of the lesson, it takes the photographer who already sees well and teaches the harder, quieter craft of helping another person see — designing a curriculum backwards from the graduate, writing outcomes that are promises rather than paperwork, planning the single hour, teaching while the light is changing, and demonstrating honestly.

The second half turns to judgment: the portfolio as the true curriculum, grading that describes rather than reduces, critique that protects the courage to show work, and teaching that reaches beyond the room — online, inclusive, and resourced. The course closes with a practicum in which the trainee educator designs a complete teaching unit of their own.