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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 199: How to Plan the First Week of World Language Class Without Feeling Overwhelmed
Planning the first week of school can feel overwhelming—especially when you have a phone full of saved ideas, conference notes, activities, and resources you want to try. But a successful first week is not about doing everything. It is about ch...
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Episode 198. How to Build a Sustainable Language Class with Routines That Support Language Acquisition
What if the reason your class feels hard to sustain is not because your activities are wrong, but because they are standing alone?In this episode of Growing With Proficiency The Podcast, I’m talking about routines that support l...
Episode 197: Cómo Empezar el Año Escolar con una Clase de Español Más Sostenible
En este episodio en español de Growing With Proficiency, converso con tres profes de nuestra comunidad de Growing With Proficiency: The Spanish Teacher Academy: Ángela Johnson, Mariem Silva y Audrey Ramírez. Aunque enseñan en contextos muy dife...
Episode 196: Two Myths About Second Language Acquisition with Dr. Bill VanPatten
What if some of the most common beliefs about language teaching are actually getting in the way of acquisition?In this special episode of Growing With Proficiency, I sit down with Dr. Bill VanPatten for a powerful conversation o...
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...
