Inspired Proficiency

Interviews with Jade Collins @lasecundariajac and Ebony Thornton @EThorntonGHS.

New game with Sarah Breckley @SarahBreckley

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Welcome to Inspired Proficiency and thank you for joining us for season 4, episode 8. As always, please tweet any takeaways and inspirations to #inspiredproficiency.

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Today's Panel on Culture in the Classroom in the Communicative Classroom:

Panelist #1: Kristen Keefe teaches Spanish in New Jersey and has been teaching many levels of high school Spanish for 19 years.

Panelist # 2: Julia Koch has been teaching high school French for the last seven years in New Jersey. She has made many presentations on Intercultural Competence.

Panelist #3: Stephanie Carbonneau has been on the podcast many times and is an avid fan! She teaches middle school French in Maine.

Panelist #4: Melanie Reid Thomas has also been on the podcasts twice before. She currently teaches Spanish in New York and has experience in several levels including middle school and high school.

Another Game Segment with Sarah Breckley: Bread and Butter Game!

Resources and links mentioned on the show found at www.deskfree.wordpress.com

Guests:

• Kristine Keefe on Twitter @kkeefe_hassan and her blog and she is also on the board of FLENJ and their 2019 Teacher of the Year! Congrats!
• Julia Koch on Twitter @jaybeekay518 and her blog
• Stephanie Carbonneau on Twitter @MmeCcarbonneau and her blog
• Melanie Reid Thomas on Twitter @senoraMThomas and her blog
• Sarah Breckley on Twitter @SarahBreckley

Season sponsorship brought to you by:

• Wayside Publishing #followtheowl Check out their Proficiency Talks!

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Welcome to Inspired Proficiency and thank you for joining us for season 4, episode 7. As always, please tweet any takeaways and inspirations to #inspiredproficiency. Detailed notes found at www.deskfree.wordpress.com

Season sponsorship brought to you by Wayside Publishing #followtheowl

Guests:

• Jessica Haxhi @jhaxhi
• Rachel Rodriguez @MaestraOTM
• Kia London @MaestraKLondon
• Natalia DeLaat @natadel76
• Sarah Breckley @SarahBreckley

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Welcome to Inspired Proficiency and thank you for joining us for the final episode of season 4, episode 6. As always, please tweet any takeaways and inspirations to #inspiredproficiency. Don't forget that Ashley and her podcasts are also on Facebook in the group "Inspired Proficiency Teacher Collaboration" with lots of great ideas for the classroom.

Our presenting sponsor Wayside Publishing invites you to nominate a world language teacher you know who is making a difference proficiency-driven practices! Nominate them on their website so they can be a featured educator on the blog.

Interview:

Dr. Mana is very excited to share information with us today on the show. She has her PHD in language and literacy with a strong focus on formative assessment and how it helps in the language classroom. She has taught Arabic at the university level and trained Arabic teachers.

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Game Segment with Sarah Breckley:

• Photo scavenger hunt with a tweak

Resources and links mentioned on the show:

• Quizlet
• Susan Brookhart's book Exploring Formative Assessments
• Book: Enacting the World of Language Instruction: High Leverage Teaching Practices by Eileen Glisan and Richard Donato
• Episode 2, Season 3 Podcast with Rebecca Blouwolff and her ideas for a Target Language Discourse Community with many ideas from the Glisan Donato book mentioned in today's podcast

Guests:

• Dr. Mouna Mana on Twitter @ms_mouna
• Sarah Breckley on Twitter @SarahBreckley

Season sponsorship brought to you by:

• Wayside Publishing #followtheowl

Episode sponsors:

• World Language Classroom by Josh Cabral
• Tina Hargaden and CI Liftoff and CI Liftoff Facebook page
• A.C. Quintero and Jennifer Degenhardt and their classroom readers: Secretos
• El Mundo de Pepita resources in Spanish, French, Russian, German and ESL

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This episode features Ellen Toubman, Beckie Bray Rankin, Ryan Casey, Sharon Stout, and Lisa Goodenough discussing assessment. As well as a new game from Sarah Breckley! Detailed notes will be available soon at www.deskfree.wordpress.com

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Welcome to Inspired Proficiency and thank you for joining us for the final episode of season 3. As always, please tweet any takeaways and inspirations to #inspiredproficiency.

Find detailed shownotes at www.deskfree.wordpress.com

Ashley has TONS of awesome opportunities for PD this summer in MA if you're interested register here! See Ashley at MAFLA and ACTFL this fall.

Interview:

Carrie was nominated by listeners as someone they want to hear from to learn HOW she juggles it all. Carrie teaches levels 2-4 full time in southern IL, authors books for Fluency Matters, and works for Señor Wooly. She is successful in juggling many tasks because she adds new things to do gradually and not all at once. She is working in her 25th year of teaching in the classroom and year 12 of not using a textbook. Carrie is a curriculum developer for Señorwooly.com and is also involved at her local and state level when it comes to foreign language advocacy and instruction.

Activities to share

1. Quiplash- listening/input based activity
2. Circle the Wagons- speaking/output based
3. Discussion Thursday- output based/ speaking activity
4. Yellow Brick Road- output/speaking activity

Carrie also gives tips for teachers who want to teach with more comprehensible input

Resources and links mentioned on the show:

Class Dojo

Fluency Matters to buy Carrie's books (and others)

Detailed shownotes found at https://deskfree.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/season-3-episode-10-activities-for-stories-with-carrie-toth/

Guests:

Carrie Toth on Twitter @senoraCMT and her website and Youtube account and on TPT: Somewhere to Share

Episode sponsors:

• Wayside Publishing #followtheowl
• ACTFL Conference is this November in Washington, DC.
• Tina Hargaden and CI Liftoff
• El Mundo de Pepita
• Puentes books from A.C. Quintero & Jennifer Degenhardt