World Language Classroom

Revisit Class Pacing and Classroom Management

Send me text and let me know your thoughts on this episode or the podcast. #154This is episode 3 in my 2024 summer headspace series. This is a chance to revisit episodes from the previous school year during the summer months when you may have a littl…

Revisit Trying Something New

Send me text and let me know your thoughts on this episode or the podcast. #153This is episode 2 in my 2024 summer headspace series. This is a chance to revisit episodes from the previous school year during the summer months when you may have a littl…

Revisit Honing Our Craft

Send me text and let me know your thoughts on this episode or the podcast. #152This is episode 1 in my 2024 summer headspace series. This is a chance to revisit episodes from the previous school year during the summer months when you may have a littl…

Get Into Your Summer Head Space

Send me text and let me know your thoughts on this episode or the podcast. #151Now that the school year is over hopefully you have a little less on your mind and have a little extra time. This is the perfect time to get into your summer headspace. W…

How Do You Assess Your Own Teaching?

Send me text and let me know your thoughts on this episode or the podcast. #150How often do we stop to reflect on our teaching? Hopefully we take the time and opportunity to do it regularly so that we are teaching our students as effectively as poss…

Circumlocution, An Essential Communication Skill

Send me text and let me know your thoughts on this episode or the podcast. #149As teachers, and proficient second language speakers, we have figured out ways to communicate words that we don’t know. We can teach this skill to students early on so th…

Performance and Proficiency in the Language Classroom

Send me text and let me know your thoughts on this episode or the podcast. #148What is your understanding of the word proficiency? This is a concept that we use all the time in our language classrooms. How about the word performance? This concept is …

Check-Ins With Teachers From Coaching Episodes

Send me text and let me know your thoughts on this episode or the podcast. #147Throughout the school year I published Leveling Up Coaching episodes with language teachers who are taking on a challenge area in their teaching or simply wanted to improv…

Interpretive Listening Strategies and Activities with Steven Lopez

#146When it comes to providing comprehensible input, is it possible to use authentic resources? In this episode, we explore how to use authentic listening resources as a form of comprehensible input with Steven Lopez, a Spanish teacher in New York. S…

Concrete Ways to Support Proficiency Growth

#145In this episode I’m taking on the question of leveling up. We often talk about proficiency levels and the output that goes along with each level. We’ll take a look at some concrete examples of language produced at each level and I’ll share some…