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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.
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Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Episode 147: How to Turn End-of-Year Assessments Into a Celebration of Growth
Do your assessments reflect the full journey your students have taken with you this year?
In this episode, I reflect on how end-of-year assessments can do more. They can be an opportunity to celebrate all the meaningful interactions, cultural insights, and personal growth that have happened in our classrooms.
Inspired by a powerful quote from Dr. Beniko Mason—“Assessments are more for me as a teacher than for my students”—I’m sharing three practical ideas to help you create assessments that honor what really matters in your class.
Plus, I’ll walk you through:
- Why we need to revisit the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
- What happens when students don’t see relevance in assessments
- How reflection questions, gallery walks, and personal prompts bring connection back
- The importance of creating tasks aligned with ACTFL proficiency levels
And don’t miss the free end-of-year survey resource I use with my own students!
🌟 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Why should assessments include more than one section of what we do in class?
- How the 5 Cs (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, Communities) show up in class—and how to reflect that in assessment
- Tips for using personal questions at both novice and intermediate levels
- The power of student reflection at the end of the year
🔗 Resources + Links:
- 📄 Free End-of-Year Reflection Workbook: Click here
- 🎧 Episode 102 with AnneMarie Chase on Assessments: Listen here
- 🎧 Episode 110 with Cecile Lainé on Intercultural Competence & the 5 Cs: Listen here
- 🎧 Episode 138 with Maris Hawkins on ACTFL Updates & Proficiency Levels: Listen here
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