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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 76: Elevating Classroom Interactions: Discover the Power of Talk Read Talk Write (TRTW) with Tan Huynh
Are you wondering how to boost interaction among your students within your world language classroom? Struggling to find effective strategies that get students engage while listening, reading and writing? Look no further—this episode is for you.
Join us as we welcome Tan Huynh, a secondary school educator with a deep focus on English language acquisition, author, podcaster, and consultant. Joining from across the globe, Tan shares his insights into the powerful Talk Read Talk Write (TRTW) model, pioneered by Nancy Motley.
Tan has embraced TRTW to enhance the learning experiences of multilingual students, meticulously using the model to facilitate meaningful processing of input while students read and listen, and to scaffold student output when they are writing or talking. TRTW offers a robust framework for lesson planning, enabling students to engage deeply with the content and each other through reading, listening, and writing activities.
Intrigued? Click here to dive deeper into how TRTW can be incorporated into your lesson plans, fostering more engaging, interactive, and supportive learning environments for your students.
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Tan Huynh (@tankhuynh ) is a secondary school teacher specializing in English language acquisition, an author, podcaster, and consultant. He has taught students from 5th to 10th grade in domestic public, private, and charter, but the bulk of his experience has been in international schools. He also taught social studies and spends much of his days co-planning and co-teaching. Tan is trained in sheltered instruction, WIDA, culturally-responsive instruction, International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program, and the Collaborative Instructional Cycle. Tan shares his application of research-based strategies on his blog, podcast, and online courses with the hopes of celebrating teachers who answer the @calling to serve multilingual learners. He holds a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction specializing in language acquisition. You can learn more about his work by going to http://TanKHuynh.com .
Resources:
The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexter
The Writing Revolution by Judith C. Hochman, and more.
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