DVD Resources

The DVD courses available from www.JamesStubbsLanguages.co.uk provide a cost-effective, practical resource for professional development.  Many teachers work their way through the material in their non-contact time over a term on an individual basis, whilst other schools use them as the basis for discussion in department meetings or INSET days in order to develop a more consistently whole-department approach.  Whichever way you use them, the significant benefit is that you can come back again and again to the session in a way that you can’t if you attend a one-day course.  Some techniques are difficult to put down in writing, but seeing them in action makes them much easier to learn and to put into practice.  Order securely online with PayPal or, for schools and organisations, on 30-day terms.

Teaching Grammar Through The Target Language: Mission Impossible?

Volumes 1-3 + CD-ROM

How do you get learners to grow in spontaneity and accuracy?  And how do you do this without using the learners’ native language?  And what if there is a wide range of ability or prior attainment in the class?

In this major new resource, James explains an approach to teaching grammar communicatively through the target language using the development of the perfect tense in French as the main example, and he shows how the principles involved can be applied to other languages and grammatical items.

Each session concludes with Pause for Thought – Questions for Departmental Development, to help you apply the training in your own teaching, in your own situation, whether you are new to teaching grammar inductively and communicatively through the target language or whether you are already more experienced. The questions for reflection are suitable for use by whole departments on INSET days or in department meetings, or by individual teachers wanting to make use of non-contact time to extend their professional development.

The examples in the sessions are given mainly in French but also in Spanish and reference is made to other languages to show how the principles explained are extremely versatile and transferable.

3 DVD set and CD of materials and handouts.

Running time: 3 hours 45 minutes.

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I’m An A* Student, Get Me Out of Here!

Volumes 1-3 + CD-ROM

 

How do you cope with the full range of ability in one class? Which activity types work well for stretching the higher-attainers whilst supporting and developing the middle- and lower-attainers? How do you develop pupils’ speaking and writing skills when they all have different strengths and weaknesses, but without having to prepare 3 different activities every time?! And how can this be done through the medium of the target language?

3 DVD set with CD-ROM of materials and handouts.

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I Will Survive!

Managing Your Workload As An NQT

The PGCE year is busy enough, but the leap to an NQT time-table, with everything that goes along with starting in a new school, is a huge challenge for every teacher. “Pace yourself!” Yes! But how?!

In this session for an audience of NQTs at the end of their first term, James presents an approach to planning the half-term with the aim of staying on top and reducing the crises which often hit in the first few years of teaching. Suitable for teachers at all stages of their careers. The seminar concludes with a Question & Answer session based on the most important issues which arose for the delegates in the first term of their careers.

You can see the handouts for this session on this blog in the NQT section

Running time: 45 mins.

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