PRESENTATION
DETECTIVE
Who is your English teacher?
START
Debra HARDSTAFF
Debbie
INDEX
SeCTION
HOBBIES
VIDEO
Origins
Background
METHODS
HISTORY
ROLE
EXPERIENCE
MOTTO
TRAINING
thanks
Originally from the UK. Debbie is British, more specifically, English
Native Speaker
She comes from the holiday town of Weymouth in Dorset on the South Coast (opposite Cherbourg)
Recognise it from the film "Dunkirk"?
Background ?
- Business Studies graduate
- Specialisation in Accountancy
- Including a 6 month placement in the accounts department of a local newspaper and 6 months in a Chartered Accountancy
TIMELINE
Debbie has spent much of her life in France
2001
1997
2003
2008
2007
Moved family to Lorraine for a social project
Moved to Calais
Became self-employed as Accountant/English trainer
Became a training centre
Moved to Douaisis
French!
Debbie and her family became French at the end of 2020.
PAgE 07
DATA
Teaching English to students in many different fields but mainly Computer Science and Business
100%
PAGE 8
HER TRAINING?
Teacher training to keep up to date with latest methods and improving skills Monthly Peer Group TESOL France member The Language Network member FutureLearn Webinars - Oxford, Cambridge ...
100%
PAGE 9
Hobbies?
Debbie likes: dressmaking baking swimming playing the clarinet
PAGE 10
VIDEO
Member of the Harmonie de Neuville St Rémy
PAGE 11
Teaching Methods?
Games
Roleplays
exercises
projects
Learning vocab through Kahoot, Quizlet etc is fun
Situations are created for specific needs and adapted to levels
Relevent exercises are found on Linguahouse and created on Liveworksheets,
Group projects are developed to use your skills in English
CLASSROOM PROCESS
75%
Input from students. Debbie is in the classroom to guide and advise but the learning is for students to take in hand
PAGE 13
75% work but 100% amusement while learning!
Learning must be fun!
Projects are to be taken seriously but the subjects can be fun
PAgE 14
CASE CLOSED
THANKS!
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Debra Hardstaff
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PRESENTATION
DETECTIVE
Who is your English teacher?
START
Debra HARDSTAFF
Debbie
INDEX
SeCTION
HOBBIES
VIDEO
Origins
Background
METHODS
HISTORY
ROLE
EXPERIENCE
MOTTO
TRAINING
thanks
Originally from the UK. Debbie is British, more specifically, English
Native Speaker
She comes from the holiday town of Weymouth in Dorset on the South Coast (opposite Cherbourg)
Recognise it from the film "Dunkirk"?
Background ?
TIMELINE
Debbie has spent much of her life in France
2001
1997
2003
2008
2007
Moved family to Lorraine for a social project
Moved to Calais
Became self-employed as Accountant/English trainer
Became a training centre
Moved to Douaisis
French!
Debbie and her family became French at the end of 2020.
PAgE 07
DATA
Teaching English to students in many different fields but mainly Computer Science and Business
100%
PAGE 8
HER TRAINING?
Teacher training to keep up to date with latest methods and improving skills Monthly Peer Group TESOL France member The Language Network member FutureLearn Webinars - Oxford, Cambridge ...
100%
PAGE 9
Hobbies?
Debbie likes: dressmaking baking swimming playing the clarinet
PAGE 10
VIDEO
Member of the Harmonie de Neuville St Rémy
PAGE 11
Teaching Methods?
Games
Roleplays
exercises
projects
Learning vocab through Kahoot, Quizlet etc is fun
Situations are created for specific needs and adapted to levels
Relevent exercises are found on Linguahouse and created on Liveworksheets,
Group projects are developed to use your skills in English
CLASSROOM PROCESS
75%
Input from students. Debbie is in the classroom to guide and advise but the learning is for students to take in hand
PAGE 13
75% work but 100% amusement while learning!
Learning must be fun!
Projects are to be taken seriously but the subjects can be fun
PAgE 14
CASE CLOSED
THANKS!