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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 18: Struggling to Thriving: A World Language Teacher’s Journey with Comprehensible Input
How can we transform our World Language teacher classes and find more joy? Join me in this conversation with Esther Galo, a Spanish teacher, who is as passionate as you are to help her students to grow in their proficiency. Esther became a Spanish teacher because she wanted to impact more students with the gift of a language but soon she found that her passion was not enough. Esther struggled for a few years with lack of engagement and, as she said, “seeing her students not learning” which was killing her joy and love for teaching.
It took vulnerability and courage but Esther decided to reflect on how effective her approach to teaching was. Esther used those dark days of the pandemic to learn more about language acquisition and the role of comprehensible input. At that point, Esther decided to make foundational changes to her practice. It took time and it wasn’t, and it’s still not, perfect but she did it and she keeps doing it. The best part is that now Esther has a much more engaged class and she and her students are using more Spanish than ever in class.
If you want to know how Esther did it and what it took, click play, and let’s start.
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Growing With Proficiency Framework and Pillars
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Esther’s IG account @sra.galo
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