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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 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...
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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 ...
Episode 190: Is That Strategy Really Not Working — Or Is It Context? | End-of-Year Reflection
You see a 60-second classroom video on social media. Students are engaged, speaking, producing. And you go straight to: "That is not happening in my class. Something is wrong with me."But you're missing the other 44 minutes — th...
Episode 189: Tea Party in the World Language Classroom: A Powerful Pre-Reading Strategy to Boost Engagement and Communication with Rita Barrett
If you’ve ever wanted your students to feel genuinely excited before reading a novel or watching a movie in class, this episode is for you.In this conversation, I sit down with Rita Barrett, an outstanding Spansih teacher, to talk about ...
