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Press Release: ABTT Launch New ABTTech Assessment
3rd Sep 2012
The ASSOCIATION OF
BRITISH THEATRE TECHNICIANS (ABTT) is using the opportunity of the
forthcoming PLASA Show, at London's Earls Court, to launch its new ABTTech
Assessment.
On Tuesday 11 September & Wednesday 12 September,
2pm-2:30pm each day, as part of The Theatres Trust Ecovenue Stage Programme at PLASA, members of the ABTTech working committee shall be on hand to explain
how this new ABTTech assessment allows working technicians to gain formal
recognition for their competence - an assessment that focuses on the
technician's actual job in the workplace.
Designed for working technicians, to give them the
recognition they deserve, it identifies their skill, knowledge and, most
importantly, their experience, in the practice of technical theatre.
Underpinned by current legislation, regulation & practice, ABTTech is aimed
at employed technical and freelance staff, technical managers & employers
and completes the ABTT framework for supporting and recognising vocational
competence.
These two sessions are complemented by a more comprehensive
seminar on Wednesday 12 September, 3:30pm-4:30pm, as part of PLASA
Professional Development Programme: Back to Basics.
"Are You Competent, How Do You Prove It and What Do You Get
For Your Time and Money?" will not only explain how the language of ‘competence,
accreditation, verification and validation' relates to the working technician
but also outline a means of gaining formal acknowledgement for the professional
competence gained by a technician through their working experience.
The seminar looks in detail at ways to gain accreditation
through the new ABTTech assessment and recaps on how TAP - the Technical Access
Passport scheme - is a way for the technician to have all that verifies and
validates their competence with them at all times.
Speakers include Sebastian Barnes (freelance trainer &
assessor and member of the ABTT Training & Education Committee), Tom
Mannings (Head of Technical, English National Opera) & Robin Townley
(Associate Executive Officer, ABTT).
All sessions are free to attend to registered PLASA visitors
and extended information can be found at:
http://www.plasashow.com/education/
http://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/events/plasa-12
