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Cultural Content Panel
Inspired Proficiency
11/12/19 • 74 min
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.
Detailed notes found at www.deskfree.wordpress.com
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!
Find detailed notes at www.deskfree.wordpress.com
Assessment with Rhonda Higgins
Inspired Proficiency
09/17/19 • 52 min
Detailed shownotes will be available in one week at www.deskfree.wordpress.com
A Shift to Teaching with Comprehensible Input with Bertha Delgadillo
Inspired Proficiency
05/21/19 • 47 min
Welcome to Inspired Proficiency and thank you for joining us for episode 9 of season 3. As always, please tweet any takeaways and inspirations to #inspiredproficiency.
Today Ashley chats with Bertha Delgadillo and then for the variety segment she will share more from her classroom and interviews for student portfolios. See detailed shownotes at www.deskfree.wordpress.com
Interview:
Bertha Delgadillo is a teacher from Mexico currently teaching in Savannah, GA. She has been teaching for five years and has taught Spanish at all levels of the high school and has some middle school experience. Bertha is here today to share her story of shifting her classroom to using more Comprehensible Input (CI). See detailed shownotes at www.deskfree.wordpress.com
What does CI mean to Bertha?
- Delivering messages the students can understand
- Her job is to go slow, show pictures, and make sure students are acquiring input
- Repeated exposure and compelling material is necessary
Inspirations:
- Martina Bex and the Comprehensible Classroom
- Mis Clases Locas and Allison Weinhold
- Many other blogs and Facebook communities
Resources and links mentioned on the show:
Guests:
Bertha Delgadillo on Twitter @profedelgadillo and her blog here
Other Resources:
- Martina Bex and the Comprehensible Classroom
- Mis Clases Locas and Allison Weinhold
- NTPRS Facebook page
- Tina Hargaden blog and youtube
- La Maestra Loca blog and youtube
- Ashley’s workshops in MA
- How to use Google sites for portfolios
- How to use Google Drive for portfolios
- How to use Youtube for portfolios
- Seesaw
- Flipgrid
Presenting Sponsor:
- Wayside Publishing #followtheowl
Episode Sponsors:
- ACTFL Membership
Stand up for all language educators –join today! And if you join online at actfl.org using the code “INSPIRED” by May 31, 2019, we’ll take 20% off your first year’s membership! What are you waiting for?
As always, with season 3, see detailed shownotes at www.deskfree.wordpress.com
Free Voluntary Reading with A.C. Quintero
Inspired Proficiency
04/16/19 • 58 min
Welcome to Inspired Proficiency and thank you for joining us for episode 6 of season 3. As always, please tweet any takeaways and inspirations to #inspiredproficiency.
Download the episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/inspiredproficiency/IPe6.mp3or listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts here or find it wherever you listen to podcasts!
On this episode Ashley chats with author A.C. Quintero who is offering a giveaway to Inspired Proficiency listeners! Enter to win a trilogy from author A.C. Quintero by tweeting! Listen for details!
Ashley starts the episode with information about a project in her classroom called Teacher for a Day based on ideas she got from Laura Sexton. Laura was a guest back in season 1 on episode 9. Listen to her episode here.
Teacher for a Day
Students plan, prepare, and lead an entire class period in Spanish. They pick themes, vocabulary words, and activities. Rule of thumb- stick with general words to cover more content and not super specific things. Students can use props and bring their class to life. They hook the other students, do movement, and do a reading and writing activity. The kids come up with awesome material that the teacher can use and play with other classes later on. The content can be anything so the students are really empowered to do a lot with the language and lead really powerful activities. Students might need more help the first year but they quickly realize how much more language they possess year after year and push themselves to be even more creative in the second or third year of the project.
Details and resources can be found at www.deskfree.wordpress.com
Interview:
Alicia Quintero is a Spanish teacher from Chicago. She teaches levels 1 and 4 in an IB school. Some of her readers are available in French but they are all available in Spanish. Alicia has been writing since about 2015 and has been teaching for 14 years. Her writing came from a lot of storytelling in class and she was using this avenue to try to solve problems happening within the classroom.
What does FVR (Free Voluntary Reading) look like your classroom?
It depends on the class and the level of engagement with reading. We as teachers need goals for what we want to accomplish during a reading session. We know that reading bolsters second language acquisition but they can also learn more than that, like a life lesson.
Big Takeaway! Get your students reading and if you have a story to tell, write it! A.C. Quintero is not the only author writing awesome FVR books for World Language classrooms. Go explore all the authors out there and give your students something to be excited about in class!
Continue reading detailed notes at www.deskfree.wordpress.com
Resources and links mentioned on the show:
Guests:
A.C. Quintero
- Alicia’s FVR Implementation Strategies
- Twitter @klasekastellano
- Instagram @a.c.quintero
- Website
- Video Promo of New Book
- Places to buy her books
Other resources:
- Shownotes for Inspired Proficiency Podcast
- Visit Profe Ashley here
- Laura Sexton (PBL in the TL) on Twitter @sraspanglish
- IB schools
- El Internado
- Bryce Hedstrom
Episode sponsors:
- Wayside Publishing #followtheowl
Building a Target Language Discourse Community with Rebecca Blouwolff
Inspired Proficiency
03/19/19 • 56 min
Welcome to Inspired Proficiency and thank you for joining us for episode 2 of season 3. As always, please tweet any takeaways and inspirations to #inspiredproficiency.
On the second episode Ashley continues her conversation with Rebecca Blouwolff, the NECTFL 2019 teacher of the year, about high leverage teaching practices. Rebecca teaches 7th and 8th grade French at Wellesley Middle School, a suburb of Boston, MA. Ashley also chats with Jennifer Bilby about her fame among Spanish teachers who use Señor Wooly.
Ashley is offering her 3rd annual 3 day workshop this summer 2019 in Tyngsboro, MA.
8/14 Proficiency and Target Language Strategies
8/15 Assessment and Feedback Practices Through Proficiency Portfolios
8/16 Community Building Themes and Team Challenges in the Target Language
Episode:
Rebecca has already shared with us about Facilitating Target Language Comprehensibility and today she continues today with Building a Target Language Discourse Community. All her ideas come from reading the book Enacting the Work of Language Instruction: High Leverage Teaching Practices by Glisan & Donato.
Building a Target Language Discourse Community describes talking to your students and getting them to speak to you in the target language. Several strategies involving visual assists to hold kids accountable are discussed to promote target language use. It is a culture that needs to be built and cultivated within the classroom and that takes time. See more details at www.deskfree.wordpress.com
Variety Segment:
Ashley also interviews Jennifer Bilby and her new found fame after being in the new song released for Wooly Week. She teaches Spanish at Pequea Valley High School in Lancaster, PA. Jennifer Bilby won Wooly Week 2017 two years ago and has been patiently awaiting her original song written by the genius himself, Señor Wooly. He shared the song with all of those participating in Wooly Week for an engaging week (or two) filled with excitement for students and professional development for teachers. Her favorite part of her original song is the dancing in the limousine.
She also answers some listener questions from Facebook to talk about how her life has changed since the song debuted. Señor Wooly is a great to bring joy and fun to the learning of Spanish with great music and stories. Jennifer also mentions how great Wooly Week was for teachers and even though not everyone could complete all of the activities, they work with ALL stories and you just modify the activities to work with what you are doing. The activities shared during Wooly Week help teachers to pull out all the elements of language from the song and story.
Resources and links mentioned on the show:
Guests:
Rebecca Blouwolff on Twitter @MmeBlouwolff and her blog https://mmeblouwolff.weebly.com
Jennifer Bilby
Books:
Enacting the Work of Language Instruction: High Leverage Teaching Practices by Glisan & Donato
While We’re on the Topic by Bill Van Patten (BVP)
Other resources:
Rebecca’s blog post on her 6 hour session on High Leverage Teaching Practices with Dr. Catherine Ritz (on Twitter @ritzforeignlang) and their slides
#langchat on Twitter (What is LangChat?)
TALK rubric
Episode sponsors:
Tips for Establishing a Target Language Only Environment
Inspired Proficiency
04/03/18 • 46 min
Welcome to our 5th Episode! Inspired Proficiency is a podcast for language teachers created by language teachers - featuring interviews, tricks, resources, and tons of inspiration for your classroom! In this episode Ashley talks about the following:
- Ingredients for Establishing a Target Language Only Environment
- 2 New Game Ideas with Kristine Keefe
- Guess What? Gameshow part one with Gale Stafford and Estela Schmalz
Ashley shares a little bit about her classroom and 7 ingredients she includes in her classes to establish a target language only environment for her Novice-Lows.
Kristine’s games focus on Breakout Edu and a Twitter inspired game. See links below for resources!
Finally, Estela Schmalz & Gale Stafford team up for a circumlocution inspired game called “Guess What?!” See how well they can do and we’ll see if they are victorious in part 2.
Episode Guests:
Things mentioned in this episode:
Ashley’s Blog with post about the ingredients
Ashley’s class website with behaviors for Novice-Low inferring, expressing and extending
Inspired Proficiency Facebook Page
Ashley’s Workshops
Thank you to our Sponsors:
Presenting Sponsor: World Language Proficiency Project
National Network for Early Language Learning
The artwork for Inspired Proficiency was created by Julie Speno with music by Cody Crabb. Podcast editing done via Podcast Buddy
Proficiency Driven Curriculum with Ashley Uyaguari & guest interviewer Wendy Farabaugh
Inspired Proficiency
03/26/19 • 66 min
Welcome to Inspired Proficiency and thank you for joining us for episode 3 of season 3. As always, please tweet any takeaways and inspirations to #inspiredproficiency.
The third episode of season three is a first for Inspired Proficiency. Host, Ashley Uyaguari is interviewed by Wendy Farabaugh about how she makes her classroom student centered. The variety segment interviews Haydee Arnold Taylor and how she brings STEM into the world language classroom.
Wendy Farabaugh teachers French 1 and AP French in Ohio. She participates in #langchat as a moderator on Twitter working behind the scenes to figure out which topics are most interesting to participants. Wendy credits #langchat to helping her stay in the teacher profession and help her find like minded people to connect with.
Resources and links mentioned on the show:
Guests:
Ashley Uyaguari on Twitter @profeashley
Wendy Farabaugh on Twitter @MmeFarab
Haydee Arnold Taylor on Twitter @Sra_Arnold
Other resources:
Season 1 Inspired Proficiency Episode 3 with Kristopher Morehead
Visit Profe Ashley
#langchat on Twitter
ACTL proficiency guidelines
OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview) interview
21st century skills
Episode sponsors:
- Wayside Publishing #followtheowl
- ACTFL Center for Assessment, Research, and Development (CARD)
- Tina Hargaden join her mailing list for weekly updates
- Voces Digital: Nuestra Historia
- El Mundo de Pepita
- World Language Classroom
- Puentes books from A.C. Quintero & Jennifer Degenhardt
Read detailed notes at www.deskfree.wordpress.com
Thoughtful Technology Integration with Catherine Ousselin
Inspired Proficiency
09/18/18 • 38 min
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Two of Inspired Proficiency - with Ashley Uyaguari! Inspired Proficiency is a podcast for language teachers created by language teachers - featuring interviews, tricks, resources, and tons of inspiration for your classroom! In this episode Ashley talks about the following:
- Interview with Catherine Ousselin
- Different technologies and services available to the classroom
- Choosing and deciding what technology is best for you.
Ashley Talks to Catherine Ousselin about different technology for the classroom as well as what she is doing in her foreign language classes. They speak on a wide variety of technology available as well as what different people are using.
Both of these teachers share a wealth of information and techniques they have acquired throughout their teaching careers. In this episode, available technologies and patterns in technology are discussed! Get ready for these discussions and more in the fourth episode of Season Two, and be sure to Tweet your own experiences using #InspiredProficiency to @profeashley
Things We Mention In This Episode:
Catherine Ousselin on Twitter!
Mundo De Pepita on Teachers Pay Teachers!
The artwork for Inspired Proficiency was created by Julie Speno with music by Cody Crabb
Season 2 Finale: The Big Teacher Share
Inspired Proficiency
12/12/18 • 54 min
Our final episode of this season was inspired by Alison Moran. She suggested it’d be a great idea to host a large “teacher share” to end the year. As always, please tweet out any takeaways to #inspiredproficiency and share what inspires you!
Inga Paterson-Zuniga: Montclair, New Jersey, 7th Grade Spanish, Twitter feed: @IngalaG2, Blog: joyofci.com
Ryan Casey: Lexington High School (Lexington, MA), Spanish teacher; Twitter: @rcaseyLHS
Cherish Reale: Woodbridge, VA Spanish Twitter and Instagram handle is @VTBandera School St Thomas Aquinas Regional School
Angela Williams, Savannah, GA, Spanish teacher, Twitter handle: @AngelaWEducator
Alison Moran, French FLES, Atlanta. Twitter Madame Moran @AlisonM1936595
Stephanie Carbonneau, French, York, ME
In this episode, we talk about...
- Suggestions for “Star of the Day”
- Using authentic games from a target culture
- Tips for using puppets to create dialogue and comprehensible input
- Ways to maximize class time using independent reading
- Ideas for using images for language acquisition, diversity, social issues
- Tapping into resources at your school and on social media
- How to use the “UnLucky Reading Game”
Resources and Links mentioned on the show:
Real Talk: #Metoo, Equity and Diversity with Jade Cintron
Inspired Proficiency
12/05/19 • 63 min
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FAQ
How many episodes does Inspired Proficiency have?
Inspired Proficiency currently has 55 episodes available.
What topics does Inspired Proficiency cover?
The podcast is about Teaching, Courses, Podcasts, Education, French and Spanish.
What is the most popular episode on Inspired Proficiency?
The episode title 'A Proficiency Journey with Ashley's former student Araceli' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Inspired Proficiency?
The average episode length on Inspired Proficiency is 52 minutes.
How often are episodes of Inspired Proficiency released?
Episodes of Inspired Proficiency are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Inspired Proficiency?
The first episode of Inspired Proficiency was released on Feb 8, 2018.
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