- Your experience teaching idioms and phrases in American Sign Language (ASL) begins with us! Throughout this DVD, you will learn how to teach over 50 idioms and phrases in ASL about all facets of everyday life.
- You will also learn how to use these expressions in complete English and ASL sentences, activities and more.
- Since idioms and phrases are important part of daily conversations among Deaf / Hard-of-Hearing students, ASL teachers, parents and professionals, it is normal for one to encounter difficulties interpreting and/or translating these expressions into ASL and English.
- Our unique teachings will involve a media-rich bilingual presentation that is excellent for both Deaf / Hard-of-Hearing and ASL enthusiasts.
- This DVD is a requirement for every ASL teacher as well as for full use part of an American Sign Language / Deaf Studies and Interpreter Training programs (! ITP).
{Directed by Oscar winner Vanessa Roth}
{Inspired by the New York Times bestseller "Teachers Have It Easy"}
{Produced by Best-Selling Author Dave Eggers ("A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius").}
{Endorsed by Teacher's Unions representing millions of teachers.}
{Seen as the answer to "Waiting for Superman" and "The Lottery".}
{Opened in theatres with an $8000+ per screen average in first week and rave reviews.}
{Microsoft's Partners in Learning has launched a community screening tour in more than 400 cities and towns across the country.}
As the debate over America's public schools rages on, the one thing everyone agrees on is the need for great teachers. Yet while research has shown that teachers are the most important in-school factor in a child's success, America's educators are so underpaid that almost two-thirds must work a second job in order to make a living.
Chronicling the stor! ies of four teachers in different areas of the country, Americ! an Teach er reveals the frustrating realities of today's teachers, the difficulty of attracting talented new educators, and why so many of our best teachers leave the profession altogether. Can we re-value teaching and turn it into a prestigious, financially attractive and desirable profession? With almost half of American teachers leaving the field in the next ten years, now is the time to find out.
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/11/2008 Run time: 622 minutes Rating: NrFrustrated newlyweds and bickering marrieds, lecherous executives and bodacious secretaries, uptight squares and free-spirited hippies, suspicious wives and nervous husbands, inexperienced teens and swinging seniors. They’re all part and parcel of
Love, American Style, the era-defining anthology series that offered a comedic look at the so-called "new morality." Rebounding after studio-imposed DVD-interruptus, this three-disc set contains the 12 episodes that complete
Season One. E! ach contains two or three playlets. Unlike
The Love Boat, all are played for laughs: A honeymooning groom accidentally locks himself in an antique store’s chastity belt; A bachelor pretends to have a wife and children to seduce a coworker who only dates married men; A harried man discovers his favorite restaurant has gone topless just as his wife surprises him for lunch. One intriguing story is "Love and the High School Flop-Out," whose story about an awkward teen who has the house to himself while his parents are out of town anticipates
Risky Business, complete with friends who suggest he rent out the house for an "orgy."
Love plays it completely straight. In one story, a newlywed complains her husband seems to be losing interest in her, prompting her mother to inquire if he is "strange." In another, an interior decorator in love with a mobster’s daughter is dismissed by him as a "petunia" until he dispatches the thug’s henchmen ("The fact that I! have taste and a certain flair for color and design doesn’t! make me any less of a man," he argues). And in another, two bickering male business partners visit a marriage counselor to sort out their troubles. Of course, what really makes this show such a star-spangled affair is each episode’s roster of character actors, TV Land cult faves, and future stars. Burt Reynolds already has his smirk going as a soldier whose wife has written a scandalous bestseller in "Love and the Banned Book." An 18-year-old Kurt Russell portrays a high school student poised to lose his virginity in "Love and the First-Nighters."
Love American Style is hip enough to reference Alice B. Toklas,
Bonnie & Clyde,
Rosemary’s Baby and Federico Fellini, but its chauvinistic attitudes now make the once-naughty show seem almost endearingly quaint. Still, to watch "Love and the Nervous Executive," which pairs prissy Paul Lynde with va-voom "Mighty Carson Arts Players" bombshell Carol Wayne, or "Love and the Big Night" with Tony Randall and Julie "Cat! woman" Newmar, is to fall in
Love all over again.
--Donald LiebensonStudio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 11/20/2007This DVD is a requirement for every ASL teacher as well as for full use part of an American Sign Language / Deaf Studies and Interpreter Training programs (ITP). Avery Posner will guide every viewer how to explicitly use Idioms & Phrases in American Sign Language, Vol. 1 DVD in a classroom environment. You will learn how to incorporate activities, provide handouts from the workbook (ISBN/EAN13:144144811X / 9781441448118) and plan your courses for 8 or more weeks. This DVD will show you how to provide quiz and do homework review. Over an hour and half of easy to follow introduction and instructions, every viewer will appreciate this most powerful teaching tool yet at a fraction of the cost! As a bonus, this DVD also includes all 52 idioms and phrases and their sentence examples seen in the student volume 1 DVD. Thus, you will have an all in one solution to teach the first 52 idioms!
