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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
Episode 121: Elevate Intermediate Learners - Part 2: Purposeful and Supported Output & Realistic Curriculum
In Episode 121 of Growing With Proficiency The Podcast, Claudia dives into the second part of her series on intermediate learners, focusing on two major challenges: output and curriculum. Claudia shares actionable strategies on how to support student output meaningfully, reduce the overwhelm of curriculum, and keep learners motivated as they navigate this critical stage.
This episode is packed with insights to help you create a more manageable and motivating classroom experience.
Episode Highlights:
- Supporting Student Output with Purpose:
- What is the role of output and the importance of meaning when it comes to output.
- How low-stakes output activities can help reduce stress and increase input opportunities.
- The role of model texts in guiding students to produce the language and the importance of scaffolding output.
- Dealing with Curriculum Pressures:
- Strategies for managing a heavy curriculum while keeping the focus on input and maintaining flexibility.
- How can overlapping themes across units help cover more content without rushing through topics?
- Keeping Intermediate Learners Motivated:
- Tips on fostering intrinsic motivation through self-evaluation, scaffolded tasks, and regular progress checks.
- Celebrating comprehension wins and supporting students through the challenge of producing output is important.
Resources and Links Mentioned:
Free Resource:
"Apoyos" for Intermediate Learners and AP Students
Episode 56: Output with Dr. Florencia Henshaw
Episode 119: Elevate Intermediate Learners Part 1
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