>>3905997I learned this shit in middle school. You can push your students or yourself or whoever much more if they are in high school.
My high school photo classes were set up so that we would spend a day each week going over some type of assignment, whether it be street photos, landscapes, nature shots, body forms, architecture, studio pictures, basic stuff like that. We would also look at a bunch of example in class and talk about compositional techniques being used. Then during classtime we would just edit the photos, and the teacher would be able to check in with all of us to give advice and stuff.
I hope that assignment was for like a single night because it is pretty awful (did you say this was for a whole fucking semester?), you should already be using all of those techniques in photos anyway but its not helpful to just tell someone "rule of thirds" and then not really give any other direction. Also it makes it seem like the process for taking photos is "just take one of each of these and hope one comes out good" and end up with like ten horrible shots, rather than like, have a whole roll or like 50+ photos with a specific theme and only end editing the one or two that would actually end up any good from that.
I had really awesome photo instructors though and most of the kids at my school tended to be pretty artsy so they tended to be self-motivated about this stuff
