Who should purchase Fingerspelling 1: Teacher's Guide?
Any teacher of a dedicated fingerspelling class.

A teacher of an advanced sign language class looking to supplement their current materials should purchase this DVD series.

Fingerspelling 1: Teacher's Guide is the first half of a 32 week fingerspelling curriculum.
Fingerspelling 1: Teacher's Guide enables you to plan and teach a 16 week fingerspelling course. The topics covered in this course are different from Fingerspelling 2 and provide the students with a broad background in practical fingerspelling expression and acquisition.

Benefits
Students learn by watching a native signer tell a short story or anecdote in American Sign Language.

Students are required to prepare their own short stories for classroom participation.

Students spend all of their time either watching a native signer or practicing their own signs. No time is wasted on reading text or looking at black and white drawings with arrows.

Based on practical observation:
This Teacher's Guide DVD set is based upon Missy's 18 years of teaching off and on at community colleges and workshops around the country. When asked to teach fingerspelling a few years ago at the last minute she said, "Sure." She was underwhelmed with the materials available to teach the course. That was the moment when she decided to produce a better curriculum.