Howdy!
I want to thank you for visiting my blog! I am very excited about sharing my successes and failures as a LOTE teacher with an open heart. Failure is a necessary part of growing as teachers, and it is an excellent tool for reflection, change, and improvement. I am not talking about dead-end failure, the kind that results in loss of opportunity, regression, or stagnation; I am talking about failure that comes from trial and error and results in growth toward being better teachers.
A few years ago, I began my classroom transformation from a “let’s learn about the language” to “Let’s see what you can do with the language. Ditching the grammar and the traditional methods and replacing them with I can statements and performance-based practices is the best thing that has ever happened to my students and me. I have seen my students grow in their proficiency level and confidence in resolving real-world everyday communication problems.
The Proficiency-Based Classroom is still a work in progress for me, I truly hope to learn from other colleagues in this process, and at the same time, you can also learn from my years of experience in the LOTE classroom. For those just beginning the path towards proficiency-based teaching, all I can say is that the road will not be easy, but I assure you it will undoubtedly be worthwhile.
We LOTE teachers are together in this new journey that will create a generation of genuinely bilingual students, and I hope we all look back in a few years and feel proud of the results we have achieved in the Proficiency-Based Classroom.
Sra. Olé
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