Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

Send us Fan Mail How can I maintain the use of the target language in class? We both know that using comprehensible target language in class is crucial.  However, maintaining that day in and day out can be overwhelming, to say the least, unless you´re incorporating these three strategies in your class every day! In Episode 4, I´ll share with you the 3 most impactful strategies that I use every day...

Send us Fan Mail How to stay in the target language may be the most crucial question we, as World Language teachers, ask all the time, and because I know how important the answer to that question is,  I decided to split it into two parts. Today, in Part 1, I will focus on how I was able to go from barely using the target language in class to using it more than 70% of the time and sometimes achievi...

Send us Fan Mail I only wish someone would have told me these three things 17 years ago when I first entered a Spanish class. If you have been a World Language teacher for a while now, then there have been probably a million times you have said, "If only I knew then what I know now, I would have done things so differently“.  Yes. It's always so much easier to analyze situations when you&...

Send us Fan Mail Why Should We REALLY Learn Languages?  My students ask me this question all the time, and it took me years to articulate the right answer not only for them but also especially for me. You probably already have different valid answers to this question and even a Google slide presentation.  I did too.  But for me, those answers did not provide the most essential reasons why our stud...

Send us Fan Mail 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? If you are, you're in the right place. Let's start this journey together. Head over to IG , and s...