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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 199: How to Plan the First Week of World Language Class Without Feeling Overwhelmed
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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 choosing what will help you build the classroom you want to sustain all year.
In This Episode, you will learn:
- Why more activities do not always create a better first week
- How to connect your first-week plans to your long-term classroom goals
- Why activities should serve a purpose—not the other way around
- How to begin routines at a pace you can sustain
- Why I do not introduce Calendar Talk, sustained reading, and every classroom routine immediately
- Simple ways to connect, provide input, reset, and reflect during the first week
- How to create early success for both you and your students
Resources Mentioned
Learn more about Growing With Proficiency: The Spanish Teacher Academy:
https://growingwithproficiency.com/academy
The Academy is open through July 21 at 11:55 PM ET.
Join us for the Academy Summer Conference on July 24 and 25, plus ongoing professional development, planning support, classroom resources, and the Creciendo curriculum.
Questions about the Academy?
Email support@growingwithproficiency.com
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