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Hey Spanish Teachers!
Ready to create the Spanish class of your dreams—an engaging, comprehensible, and joyful space where you can impact students beyond words?
At Growing With Proficiency - The Spanish Teacher Academy (GWP), we empower educators like you to make a lasting impact on your students through the gift of language and cultural understanding.
Join us today and let's embark on this incredible journey together!
Click the video below to learn how!
As a Spanish teacher, you want your students to develop proficiency and cultivate an authentic love for the culture, but often you feel overwhelmed and defeated.
Be part of Growing With Proficiency - The Spanish Teacher Academy: THE ultimate community for Spanish teachers where you'll gain a deeper understanding of how students acquire language and develop proficiency.
Get ready to have all the tools you need and deserve.
With our self-paced course that will give you the FRAMEWORK to plan, our BIG LIBRARY of powerful sessions and incredible resources &  MONTHLY live classes, group coaching, planning together sessions, ready-to-use resources, and unwavering support, you'll discover a whole new level of teaching excitement!
I WANT TO JOIN NOW!
Growing With Proficiency
- The Spanish Teacher Academy -
This is THE community for Spanish teachers who want to build a comprehensible and communicatively-driven classroom with monthly support, ready-to-use resources, and a caring community.
With Growing With Proficiency - The Spanish Teacher Academy -
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💫 You’ll develop the perfect foundation for your language class so you can stay in the target language, build a strong connection with your students, and design content that is communicatively driven so your students will be engaged and ready to acquire the language.
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đź’«You will have a system and a framework that will help you design lessons, units, and an entire curriculum for your classes.
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đź’«You won't get stuck anymore because you’ll have monthly support throughout the year with live Q&A sessions, training sessions, ready-to-use resources, and more. Imagine having units and resources at your fingertips that you can use on those days when you don´t have any energy.Â
Right now, you may be thinkingÂ
➡ I would like to use more Spanish in class but there is so much resistance from my students.
➡ I would like to have compelling content in my class, but I don’t know how to start, and I don’t have the time.
➡ My students seem disengaged in class. No matter what I do, they are continuously distracted, on their phones, or asking to go to the bathroom. It’s exhausting.
➡ I want to move away from grammar and vocabulary lists to a more comprehensible, culturally rich, and communicatively-driven instruction but where should I start?Â
➡ I frequently feel behind in covering the curriculum, doing all the activities, and grading. I’m frustrated, and so are my students.
IF THIS IS YOU, GWP The Spanish Teacher Academy can help!
Teaching our Spanish classes doesn't have to be SO frustrating!
➡ Say goodbye to long lists of vocabulary and grammar! Learn how to create a communicatively-driven classroom with ease.
➡ Get a clear understanding of delivering compelling and comprehensible lessons every day.
➡ Master the art of motivating your students to acquire Spanish by understanding what drives young learners today.
➡ Save time by incorporating our framework and pillars into your unit and lesson planning.
➡ Become an expert at using Spanish in class, providing emotional and linguistic support to encourage student participation.
➡ Gain the clarity, strategies, and tools to troubleshoot challenges on difficult days in the classroom.
Alexandra
Este es mi primer año utilizando técnicas de CI y aunque no son perfectas, me encanta que los estudiantes hablan más español aunque sea con ayuda! También hablo más español en clase y ellos prestan atención a las historias que les cuento. Me falta mucho por aprender pero la academia que ha dado la oportunidad de cambiar mis prácticas de enseñanza y siempre tengo apoyo de otros profesores y por supuesto de Claudia!
Graciana
Estoy maravillada con todo el contenido que hay disponible en la Academia!!! ¿Por qué no me unà antes?
Sandra
Me ha ayudado a entender que enseñar español no se trata de solo gramática y mucho vocabulario o seguir un libro de texto y tratar de terminar todas las unidades. He disfrutado ser maestra más ahora que he estado en la academia porque me ha ayudado a encontrar mi estilo y lo que en realidad funciona para mis estudiantes. Los estudiantes están más contentos y están un poco más relajados lo cual les ayuda para retener más el idioma.
Introducing the Growing With Proficiency JourneyÂ
Our Four-Step Pathway that Can Transform Your Spanish Class and Boost Your Confidence!
STEP 1: CULTIVATING THE ROOTS
Incorporate in your classroom the 3 Cs: Comprehension, Communication, and Connections to have a solid foundation.
STEP 2:Â NURTURING STRATEGIES
Elevate your teaching craft with effective strategies to support learners from input to output.Â
STEPÂ 3:Â INTEGRATION & ADAPTATION
Integrate the GWP Framework for lesson planning or customize it to suit your teaching style. Â
STEP 4: REFLECT, REALIGN AND FIND SUPPORT.Â
Access ongoing solutions and support with our benefits and community for your daily classroom challenges.Â
When you join GWP The Spanish Teacher Academy and work on these four steps, you’ll not only build your dream Spanish class, but you’ll also stop the constant self-doubt, become more effective in your planning, and gain confidence and joy inside your class.
Growing With Proficiency - The Spanish Teacher Academy
All the knowledge, tools, and support you need to have the engaging, vibrant, and driven comprehensible input-based class you’re dreaming of!
Inside, we share exactly how to build a solid foundation for a comprehensible-driven classroom that incorporates the 3 pillars:
◻️ComprehensionÂ
◻️ CommunicationÂ
◻️ Connections
You’ll be able to deliver rich and compelling content in your class with comprehensible and communicative lessons, integrating or adjusting the “GWP Effective Planning Framework”.
What is inside GWP The Academy?
The Course
Stop wondering what to do in class next. With this self-paced course, you will have a much deeper understanding of how learners acquire the language. You’ll have the knowledge, the clarity, the tools, and the strategies to help your students grow in proficiency regardless of the level you’re teaching.
Unit 1: The Foundation - This 3-module unit is packed with the basic principles of second language acquisition, specific ideas to help you provide input, and support output so your learners will feel competent and engaged.
Unit 2: The Pillars - With this 3-module unit, you’ll be able to build a solid foundation for a comprehensible and communicatively-driven classroom. Connections, comprehension, and communication will be at the heart of all your activities, lessons, and curriculum in your class, and your learners will love it.
Unit 3: The Framework - Never again spend countless hours looking for the perfect resource or activity. This Framework will give you the step-by-step system you need to adjust any resources you already have or create new ones.
MONTHLY BENEFITS
Move past the daily challenges we all face in our classes and the frustration of finding compelling content for our classes with these incredible monthly benefits.
Check them out.Â
- A monthly group coaching sessions where you can get one-on-one with me to answer your questions or get feedback on any strategy or resource.
- A monthly live training session with me or an expert that will go hand-in-hand with our focus topic of the month.Â
- A monthly planning together session to help you design comprehensible and compelling lessons.
- At least 3, ready-to-use resources every month. The resources are fully editable so you can make them yours, plus a How-To-Video with practical ideas on how to incorporate or adjust the resources for all your classes regardless of the level
- A monthly Action Plan with specific steps to put into action all that you learn inside the Academy. Check out the one for November
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Quarterly training session to go deeper in a practical aspect of your classroom. Â
- A quarterly glance plan where you can see our focus for the quarter, general objectives, and specific goals for you, plus the resources, additional training, and live sessions that will happen every month during the quarter. Â
THE COMMUNITY
You'll also be part of our private FB community where you can find additional support.
- Share your wins and your progress
- Connect with other Spanish teachers to share resources and ideas
- Ask questions
Training Library:
When you sign up for the GWP The Academy, you'll have access to more than 10 hours of PD training about acquisition-driven instruction. Check out some of the titles:
- Performance-Based Assessment 3 Session Training with Kara Parker
- Classroom Management in the CI Classroom with Jon Cowart
- Socratic Seminar in the World Language Classroom with Christina Margiore
- The Art of Calendar Talk with Claudia Elliott
- How To Engage Students with Story Asking with Claudia Elliott
- And more.
WINTER CONFERENCE:
When you sign up for GWP THE ACADEMY - you’ll have your FREE TICKET to attend life to our  GWP Winter Conference 2024. Â
PLUS an additional conference in the summer.Â
These two conferences are worth more than the yearly subscription for GWP The Spanish Teacher Academy!
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Bonuses! Let's Talk Extra
BECAUSE IT'S JANUARY AND WE WANT 2024 TO BE THE YEAR
BONUS 1:
LIBRARY OF READY-TO-USE RESOURCES
Get immediate access to all the ready-to-use resources and templates that we've shared in the Academy this school year!
There are resources for all levels. There are cultural units, entire units, resources for short films and songs, and cultural readings. Â
BONUSÂ 2:
LIBRARY OF MONTHLY LIVE CLASSES
Access all the live classes of this school year including assessing for proficiency, Write & Discuss, Story Listening reverse, Hexagonal Thinking and our quarterly bonuses classes.Â
BONUS 3:
GWP Winter Conference 23
Watch all the replays for our winter conference and learn about classroom jobs, games and routines that work, using novels in classes, and free write.Â
BONUS 4:Â
GWP Summer Conference 23
Get a second conference and get ready to master the art of story asking, story listening, TPR, creating rubrics and support your heritage speakers.Â
When you join GWP The Spanish Teacher Academy today all these bonuses will be ready for you.Â
**These bonuses are worth more than DOUBLE of the yearly subscription of GWP The Spanish Techer Academy.**
I'M READY TO BE PART OF THE SPANISH TEACHER ACADEMY
Do you need a PO? Click here to get all the information for your purchase order now and request a quote. Â
FAQ
What if I teach a language other than Spanish?
Can I cancel my subscription?
In which language are all the training videos, demos, and live sessions?
When do we receive our monthly resources?
For how long will the monthly resources will be available?
What happens if I cannot make it to the session?
Do you accept POs?
Do you provide certificates for PD?
Is this membership a one-on-one coaching program?
Does GWP the Academy include a complete curriculum for all Spanish levels?
Do you offer financial assistance?
Don't miss out on this opportunity to transform your Spanish classes and make a lasting impact on your students. Join Growing With Proficiency - The Spanish Teacher Academy today and unlock your full potential as an educator. Let's embark on this incredible journey together!
Maritza
Con mucho orgullo puedo decir que pertenezco a la Academia desde que se abrió. En el tiempo de Covid, andaba en el limbo. Estuve en el Facebook de Claudia y la seguà a la Academia porque ella es muy energética, positiva, creativa y profesional. Encontré apoyo académico y emocional en todo momento porque los profesores de la academia somos como una familia. Los intercambios de ideas, en vivo, con otros profesores, planear lecciones en vivo y muchas recomendaciones de Claudia y su grupo me hacen sentir confiada, segura y animada.
Angela D.
Desde que soy parte de la academia, he notado que estoy más relajada en el salón de clase. Me siento más confiada cuando enseño mis lecciones. He visto crecimiento en cuanto a la escritura de mis alumnos. Las estrategias "write and discuss", estudiante estrella, y "Free writes" han funcionado bien en mi salón de clase. Chat mats y "Level up" charts también han funcionado bien. Mis estudiantes han producido más trabajo de calidad y mis colegas siempre me preguntan cómo logré que mis estudiantes produjeran tan buen trabajo. Me siento más libre de mis propias ideas, no uso todos las unidades de la academia, pero sirve como ejemplos o inspiración para crear mis propias lecciones y para mejorar las lecciones que he enseñado en el pasado.
Cecilia
Ahora tengo alumnos que simplemente se han enamorado del idioma. A partir de que me unĂ a la Academia, cada dĂa me siento más segura y con ánimos de seguir aprendiendo.
Esther
I’ve been teaching for fifteen years and was finally ready to dive in with CI. I just didn’t know where to start. It was hard to keep students interested, engaged, and classroom management was draining my desire and energy to continue teaching on this path. Although this transition is still a work in progress it’s taught me an entire different perspective about language acquisition I never understood before. Thanks to Claudia and this amazing Academy I now have the tools and resources to do things so much effectively. I now enjoy teaching my lower levels again and I will be forever grateful to Claudia for her invaluable guidance and support.
There has never been a better time to finally have your dream Spanish class!
Now is the perfect opportunity to ignite the curiosity in our students and foster authentic engagement in our classes to acquire a language and develop the cultural understanding we all need.Â
the time is now!
If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels to truly incorporate comprehensible input and Second Language Acquisition principles in your class, the GWP Spanish Teacher Academy is here to help you through this journey.
Join GWP The Academy today to gain the clarity, and access the support and resources you need to implement a transformation in your classes truly.
There is not a magic pill or a perfect recipe to build a class where our learners are eager to listen and to use the language. It's a journey, and you can start today.
◻️ If time is a concern, don't worry! Our self-paced course and recorded live sessions offer flexibility, allowing you to access the content at your convenience.
◻️ Embrace your own personality in the class, as it's what creates the magic! You don't need to force a specific energy; be yourself, and we'll show you how to make it work.
◻️ This is not just another training with ideas. Our monthly plans keep you accountable, providing everything you need in one document for the entire month.
◻️ Transformation is possible, but it requires time and the willingness to adjust your teaching methods, even if it means stepping out of your comfort zone.
◻️ Engaged classes and effective teaching practices demand effort, but the rewards are worth it. Choose to invest in your growth as an educator and see the impact on your students' language acquisition.
Hi! I'm Claudia Elliott.
In 2004, armed with just my textbook and native language, I embarked on my journey as a Spanish teacher. However, I quickly realized there was more to language teaching than the books offered. This realization ignited an obsession within me to learn everything about second language acquisition, supporting students on their proficiency journey, and fostering cultural competence.
Over the years, I shared my knowledge, coached language educators, and ventured into the world of podcasting, all while longing for a community that extended beyond single sessions or conferences.
Driven by this passion, I took a leap of faith and founded Growing With Proficiency The Spanish Teacher Academy in 2021. Our vibrant family of educators has grown year after year, impacting hundreds of Spanish teachers worldwide. Together, we uplift, inspire, and celebrate successes while providing a caring community that spans the entire year.
Join us if you seek support, resources, and inspiration on your journey as a Spanish teacher. Let's make a lasting impact on our students' lives together!
Claudia
I'M READY TO BE PART OF THE SPANISH TEACHER ACADEMY
Do you need a PO? Click here to get all the information for your purchase order now and request a quote. Â
Apoyando a profes más allá de la Academia
Como fundadora de Growing With Proficiency The Spanish Teacher Academy estoy convencida que es a travĂ©s de comunidades educativas como esta que nos empoderamos para no sĂłlo ser lĂderes en nuestras aulas sino en nuestras comundiades. Por eso, GWP The Spanish Teacher Academy empezĂł en el 2023 a ofrecer becas a sus profes para ir a diferences conferencias regionales y nacionales. En el 2024 ofreceremos becas para SCOLT y ACTFL.Â
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