Students

All students will want to be as prepared as possible, prior to joining any course and to this end there are two absolutely essential handbooks:

  • Total Immersion Plus The Student’s Handbook
  • Total Immersion Plus The Course Handbook

There are many other manuals and handbooks that will be of great service, there are also courses, theme packs and trackers, that a student will be wise to acquire. Having copies of the handbooks and materials is particularly useful for students, as they will undoubtedly need to practice at home, what they have learnt during course sessions. It will also help smooth a path of understanding for others living at home with the student.

Moreover, committed students will certainly have an eye out for opportunities whereby, they can gain an added understanding of what happens as their course progresses.

In addition, students/prospective tutors intending to ultimately take up such a role or those considering other Gaelic centred career options, will realise that having the essential  Total Immersion Plus The Tutor’s Handbook in their collection, is a must.

Remember, any manual, handbook or course that brings clarity and comprehension to the students, is well worth having.

Tutors Quality & Performance
Both tutor and student would do well to realise that much more is going on in the course, besides language learning. For example, student reactions, impressions, understanding of proceedings, suggestions and problems regarding a tutor’s performance, is invaluable to their development as a professional tutor. Surely it is desirable for a tutor to have their tutoring skills raised from the mediocre to an accomplished performer. Obviously a highly skilled tutor will attract more students, run higher calibre courses, have a lower student drop-out rate, and of course, have the greatest success rate possible.

Students Practicing At Home
Another vitally important point for all students to remember, is that practicing at home, what one has learnt during a course session, is integral to learning Gaelic quickly. The best and most successful students are those that seek opportunities to help themselves, above the normal run of the proceedings.

Manuals & Courses That Help Students
Just to recount what was said at the beginning apropos manuals and courses.

Information found within the pages of those handbooks listed below provides invaluable help, support, guidance, instruction, explanation, answers etc. that all students will at some point need.

  • Total Immersion Plus The Student’s Handbook
  • Total Immersion Plus The Course Handbook
  • Total Immersion Plus The Tutor’s Handbook

Students will also do well to purchase the course documentation they are presently immersed in; entirely necessary especially for practicing at home and in particular, those intending tutoring as a career option.

Here are some more titles that help students in getting the job done.

  • Gaelic In The Home Course
  • Gaelic Language Tracker
  • Cùrsa Gàidhlig san Dachaigh
  • Student’s Completed Job Check-List
  • Gaelic In The Home TIP Sessional Framework

Theme Packs
Theme Packs are unique and attractively user-friendly, inasmuch as they generally come in handy sized stand alone themes, of varying numbers, which enable tutors, students etc. to pick and choose themes they wish to work on. Ideally, having the whole course offers the best of all Worlds, as each pack deals with a particular aspect of the home, lifestyle, child rearing etc.

Notwithstanding the various packs, all work towards the acquisition of a Gaelic fluency in the shortest time possible.

Each pack contains blank boxes, sections, tables, task lists etc. and as such, are for the tutors and students to fill in at appropriate times.

Added to which, we would like to stress the importance of filling in the various blank spaces etc. both as a help to themselves, as well as other tutors and students who come later.

There are at present four theme packs on offer and they are.

Bumps & Babies Gaelic Course (19 themes)
Parent & Child Language Course (44 themes)
Pre-School Staff Gaelic Course (44 themes)
Gaelic In The Home Course (45 themes)

Above is the information apropos buying complete packs, though both tutors and students can also purchase any individual theme and number they choose.