Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Welcome to Growing With Proficiency: The Podcast! Are you a World Language teacher who is looking for ideas, strategies, activities, and inspiration to create a World Language class where you and your students enjoy using the language to learn about the world and each other? Do you want to transform your class into an acquisition-driven instruction space where you intentionally provide a ton of comprehensible input?
If you are, you're in the right place.
Let's start this journey together. Head over to IG, and send me a DM @claudiamelliott to let me know what topics you would like me to cover in an upcoming episode.Join my free Facebook community, Growing With C. Also, check out my blog to start discovering some of these ideas and strategies at growingwithproficiency.com
Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 195: 4 Lessons I Learned When My Students Couldn't Communicate in Spanish
Have you ever looked at your students and wondered:"Why aren't they communicating in the language?"In this special episode of Growing With Proficiency, the tables are turned as my friend and fellow educator, Beth...
Episode 194: What My Students Said Helped Them Learn Spanish Most (And Why Nobody Agreed)
At the end of every school year, I ask my students one question:What activity or strategy helped you grow the most in Spanish this year?This year, their answers surprised me.Some students chose Daily Personal Questions. Oth...
Episode 193: Three Things That Worked Better Than I Expected This Year
What actually helped students learn this year?As language teachers, it's easy to spend our end-of-year reflection focused on what didn't work. In Episode 191, I shared some of the challenges I faced this year. In Episode 192, I reflected...
Episodio 192: Tres lecciones sobre comportamiento que aprendí este año
¿Tus estudiantes conocen las expectativas de tu clase, pero aun así siguen apareciendo interrupciones, conversaciones paralelas o dificultades para mantener la atención?En este episodio comparto tres lecciones sobre comportamiento que ap...
Episode 191: What Didn’t Work in My Classroom This Year (And What I Learned)
As language teachers, we love sharing strategies that work. But what about the strategies that suddenly stop working? What happens when activities that worked for years begin falling apart, student engagement drops, and classroom dynamics feel ...