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

Podcasting since 2022 • 209 episodes

Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

Latest Episodes

Re-Release Episode 30: Low-Prep Activities and Three Pillars for High-Engagement in the World Language Class

Are you a language teacher looking for ways to engage your students? If you’re, you’re not alone. How to engage students is the most common question among teachers today, and that’s why I’m so excited about today's episode of Growin...

February 26, 2026 • 41:34

Episode 181: 7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive World Language Classroom with Sally Barnes

What if every student in your world language classroom was actively engaged, supported, and confident in using the target language?In this practical and inspiring conversation, Sally Barnes shares the powerful framework behind the 7 ...

February 19, 2026 • 59:44

Re-Release Episode 5: Managing Chatty Classes: 5 Strategies to Get World Language Students Actually LISTENING

Nothing works if our students aren't truly listening, and I mean truly listening.Do you have that one class that pushes all your buttons? The chatty class where students talk over you, chat in English, and seem to tune out no ma...

February 12, 2026 • 29:26

Episodio 180: Del Input al Output: Un Ciclo de Instrucción que Puedes Repetir

Planear clases no debería sentirse agotador. Muchas veces el problema no es la falta de ideas, sino no tener una estructura clara que podamos repetir.En este episodio comparto un ciclo de instrucción del input al output que...

February 09, 2026 • 30:50

Episode 179: How to Tell Stories So Students Actually Listen: What the Brain Says About Engagement with Erica Peplinski-Burge

Why do some stories immediately capture students’ attention—while others lose them halfway through?In this episode of Growing With Proficiency, I sit down with Erica Peplinsky-Burge to explore what the brain tells us about storytelling, ...

February 05, 2026 • 29:40

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Claudia Elliott

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