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 202: Classroom Management Through a Nervous System Lens with Hélène Colinet
What if challenging student behavior is not always simply a discipline problem—but sometimes a sign of overwhelm, anxiety, or disconnection?In Episode 202 of Growing With Proficiency: The Podcast, I’m joined by French teacher an...
Episodio 201: 4 ideas fundamentales para el regreso al aula con actividades prácticas
El regreso al aula viene acompañado de muchas ideas, actividades guardadas, screenshots, recursos y recomendaciones. Pero tener más actividades no siempre significa sentirnos más preparados.En este episodio de Growing With Proficiency: T...
Episode 200: Back to School—How to Get Students Participating Without Raising the Pressure with Justin Slocum Bailey
We all want students to participate. We want them to raise their hands, share their ideas, react, ask questions, and bring that energy that makes a classroom feel alive.But what happens when they don’t?It is easy to assume that th...
Episode 199: How to Plan the First Week of World Language Class Without Feeling Overwhelmed
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 ch...
Episode 198. How to Build a Sustainable Language Class with Routines That Support Language Acquisition
What if the reason your class feels hard to sustain is not because your activities are wrong, but because they are standing alone?In this episode of Growing With Proficiency The Podcast, I’m talking about routines that support l...