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

Podcasting since 2022 • 205 episodes

Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

Latest Episodes

Episode 179: How to Tell Stories So Students Actually Listen: What the Brain Says About Engagement with Erica Peplinski-Burge

Why do some stories immediately capture students’ attention—while others lose them halfway through?In this episode of Growing With Proficiency, I sit down with Erica Peplinsky-Burge to explore what the brain tells us about storytelling, ...

February 05, 2026 • 29:40

Re-Release Episode 118: Low-Stress Assessments with AnneMarie Chase

So many teachers ask the same questions:"How do you assess in a proficiency-driven classroom?""How do you grade without overwhelming students—or yourself?"And, "How do you keep assessment sustainable?"That’s why this episode ...

January 29, 2026 • 37:08

Re-release Episode 22: Making Interpersonal Communication Work: 5 Repeatable Activities That Build Real Conversation with Bethanie Drew

Interpersonal communication is what our students want most… and what many of us struggle to make happen without it turning into their common language in 10 seconds 😅In this re-released episode, I’m joined by a friend and outstan...

January 22, 2026 • 48:40

Episode 178: Adjusting & Personalizing Instruction: The Core Skill That Makes It Possible

(Why one-size-fits-all lessons don’t work—and what to do instead)In this episode, I focus on what I consider the heart of acquisition-driven instruction: adjusting and personalizing what we do in class so all

January 15, 2026 • 50:35

Episode 177: How to Ask Better Questions in the World Language Classroom (Using 5-Minute Blocks)

In this episode of Growing With Proficiency, we continue the series on how to build foundational skills for language acquisition in intentional 5-minute blocks.This episode focuses on one powerful — and often underestimated...

January 08, 2026 • 27:46

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Claudia Elliott

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