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Let's dive into how to use movies in your classroom! Allison of Mis Clases Locas is an expert in utilizing culture-rich movies as a source of input and cultural perspectives, especially for multiprep teachers.

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Allison Wienhold of Mis Clases Locas has over a decade of experience as a #deptof1 secondary Spanish teacher in Iowa. Allison loves to help save busy World Language teachers time with resources and professional development at misclaseslocas.com @misclaseslocas

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Today's element is all about the speaking and the signing: how to make sure we're doing the right speaking activities at the right time.


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This is the essential world language teacher framework for each piece of your target language rich classroom based on proficiency practices. If you're into proficiency-oriented instruction, here's where to start.

Today's element deep dive is on how to finally get interaction with your students through 2-way communication: rejoinders, hand signals, the works!

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This is the essential world language teacher framework for each piece of your target language rich classroom based on proficiency practices. If you're into proficiency-oriented instruction, here's where to start.

Today's element deep dive is on the one we use the most in class: a target language delivery system. Learn one of the key elements of making proficiency WORK FOR YOU instead of you working so hard for proficiency.

Download the 10 Elements PDF GUIDE here 

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This is the essential world language teacher framework for each piece of your target language rich classroom based on proficiency practices. If you're into proficiency-oriented instruction, here's where to start.

Today's element deep dive is on real-world context. We teach one of the most useful skills in the world. Let's keep it that way!


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Dive a little deeper into the #1 element - curriculum, scope, and sequence.

This is the essential world language teacher framework for each piece of your target language rich classroom based on proficiency practices. If you're into proficiency-oriented instruction, here's where to start.

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This is the essential world language teacher framework for each piece of your target language rich classroom based on proficiency practices. If you're into proficiency-oriented instruction, here's where to start.
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Today, we're doing an overview of the 10 elements and how to recognize them. Remember that these are all what it looks like in its ideal form - no one is quite here yet. 
Some areas are easier than others to add to your classroom. 
Take action - pick 1 element from today's episode and see where you can make some tiny tweaks to add more target language into your world language class today!
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This is my story of what proficiency-oriented instruction for world language teachers means to me. How I got started with comprehensible input, how much I loved it, messed up, and then learned there was a more practical approach to teaching language. 
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