World-renowned Cambridge author, Dr. Herbert Puchta, has a wealth of information for English language teachers.
Check out his web site as well as his teacher training videos (links below) for great ideas for your classroom!
How to Involve Students in Setting Up Their Own Ground Rules: Herbert Puchta
In this video, Dr Herbert Puchta offers a way to get students involved in creating classroom 'rules', and consequently, more likely to stick to them.
Tips for Teaching Teenagers:
Ways of Leading into a Text: Herbert Puchta (Teaching Teenagers Tip #1)
In this video, Dr Herbert Puchta presents the first in a series of teaching tips for teenagers.
Getting Students to Listen in a More Focused Way: Herbert Puchta (Teaching Teenagers Tip #2)
In this video, Dr Herbert Puchta presents the second in a series of teaching tips for teenagers, a challenging age group to teach.
Getting Students to Stick to English During the Lessons: Herbert Puchta (Teaching Teenagers Tip #3)
In this video, Herbert Puchta shares his ideas for getting students to use the English during the lesson, rather than their own language.
Error Correction in Speaking - The Fun Way: Herbert Puchta (Teaching Teenagers Tip #4)
In the fourth of his teaching tips for teenagers, Herbert Puchta looks at fun ways of correcting students' mistakes.
Making Students Aware of Different Intelligences: Herbert Puchta (Teaching Teenagers Tip #6)
In the last in his series of teaching tips for teenagers, Herbert Puchta looks at how students can be made aware of the different intelligences at their disposal.
Using Playway:
Playway Teacher training films: Working with DVD stories
Watch Herbert Puchta using Playway Second edition in class. In this short training film, Herbert demonstrates the use of DVD stories with the children, including activities with storycards, stickers and role play.
Playway Teacher training films - Part 1: Working with sketches
Watch Herbert Puchta using Playway Second edition in class. In this short training film, Herbert demonstrates working with sketches to engage the children.
Chants - Playway teacher training film no.5
Watch Herbert Puchta demonstrate the use of chants to learn vocabulary with a class of young learners.
Playway teacher training films: Consolidation of vocabulary and intelligence-building activities
Watch Herbert Puchta using Playway Second edition in class. In this short training film, Herbert shows how to consolidate children's vocabulary while at the same time improving their concentration and structural thinking.
Playway Teacher training films - Part 2: Multi-sensory vocabulary drilling
Watch Herbert Puchta using Playway Second edition in class. In this short training film, Herbert teaches the children animal vocabulary using pictures and movement.
Using MORE! Cyber Homework:
Introducing MORE! Cyber Homework
Renowned MORE! author Herbert Puchta introduces Cyber Homework, a new feature of the course to make homework even easier!
How to use MORE! Cyber Homework
Herbert Puchta gives a step-by-step guide how to use MORE! Cyber Homework, with tips on how to make homework even easier for your students.
