This paper was about shaping the way to prepare teachers. Films were used by videoing teachers in class and then undertaking a reflective interview and then the mentor provided suggestions. Films in the series focused on reflective learning, developing professionally, using portugese, teaching students to use the language and teaching students to read.

The value of these were that they showed authentic classroom situation with teachers in action. There were suggestions to improve teaching and the mentor provide some simulated lessons.

The principles when developing the videos were that they were simple and practical, easy to use, short and focused only 25 mins per module and diverse classrooms were shown that had limited resources. The modules were interactive with pre-watching questions, then questions for answering whilst watching and questions for after viewing.

The evaluation used a survey and 45 staff took part. Most were under the age of 30. They felt that the videos helped them overcome problems and anticipate problems. They were practical, showed daily work and made you aware of your strengths and weaknesses. 69% of the teachers were qualified but 31% were not.