Individual Teacher PD

I created these Ready for Tomorrow 30-Minute Quick Win PD Courses  for world language teachers like you, who want to grow professionally but don’t always have access to in-school workshops or teacher conferences.

The courses (only $10 each) provide a supportive, no-fluff learning experience led by me, Joshua Cabral, host of the World Language Classroom Podcast. I walk you through clear strategies you can use tomorrow, without needing to overhaul your curriculum.

Whether you’re looking to boost student communication, build proficiency, or transform traditional tasks into engaging learning experiences, there’s a Quick Win Course for you.

Each $10 30-Minute Course Includes:

  • 🎧 Audio – perfect for on-the-go listening

  • 📝 Detailed Notes – follow along and refer back anytime

  • 💭 Reflection Activity – connect the content to your own classroom

  • 📈 Examples at Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced Levels

  • 🛠️ Planning Template – specific to the course topic

  • 📚 Additional Resources – dive deeper when you’re ready

  • 📜 Personalized Certificate – for your PD records and to document your clock hour professional work

 

Click on the course name to get going with your Quick Win PD Today for only $10.

 

Intentional Planning for Proficiency: From Input to Assessment

  • Use backward design to plan with real-world communication goals in mind
  • Choose input that supports your target proficiency outcomes
  • Create communicative tasks that bridge input and assessment
  • Design assessments that reflect exactly what students practiced

From Vocabulary Lists to Communicative Tasks

  • Spot the difference between vocabulary-based vs. communication-based activities
  • Design tasks that get students using words to share ideas, opinions, and experiences
  • Build communicative tasks that align with ACTFL proficiency levels
  • Use a simple planning template to turn any vocabulary list into a meaningful learning opportunity

First Steps for Teaching Grammar in Context

  • Define what “grammar in context” means and why it supports communication
  • Explore two practical entry points: grammar-first and text-first
  • Use a planning template to align grammar, text, and communicative tasks

Boost Interpersonal Speaking at All Levels

  • Design interpersonal speaking tasks that align with ACTFL Can-Do Statements
  • Scaffold real-time conversation with supports that reduce fear and build proficiency
  • Create classroom conditions that invite authentic, purposeful interaction
  • Use a repeatable planning framework to manage, reflect on, and improve speaking tasks

Build Strong Listening Skills Through Prediction, Summarizing, and Focus Tasks

  • Design listening tasks that engage students before, during, and after listening.
  • Use prediction, summarizing, and focus tasks to increase comprehension and retention.
  • Create proficiency-aligned listening activities at the novice, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Using Authentic Texts at Every Proficiency Level

  • Identify what makes a text authentic and appropriate for novice, intermediate, and advanced learners.
  • Design interpretive and communicative tasks that align with ACTFL proficiency levels.
  • Use a simple planning framework to select and scaffold authentic texts effectively.

Engaging Reading Activities That Build Proficiency

  • Understand the role of reading in building interpretive and productive language skills.
  • Design effective pre-, during-, and post-reading tasks aligned to proficiency levels.
  • Use reading texts as input sources that lead to communication and acquisition, not just comprehension.
  • Create engaging activities that make reading relevant and motivating for students.

Improve Student Writing with Sentence Frames and Scaffolds

  • Identify when and how to use sentence frames without limiting creativity
  • Create leveled scaffolds that support grammar, vocabulary, and syntax
  • Encourage meaningful expression while building writing fluency
  • Gradually reduce support to develop student independence over time
  • Use student writing as a feedback loop to inform future scaffolds and instruction

Short Writing Tasks That Build Confidence and Proficiency

  • Understand the role of frequent, low-stakes writing in building confidence and proficiency
  • Design short writing prompts that are purposeful, level-aligned, and easy to implement
  • Use a clear framework to manage time, space, and follow-up with student writing

Design Activities That Are Fun and Communicative

  • Spot the difference between fun and truly communicative tasks
  • Adapt your go-to games and routines to maximize language use
  • Design new activities that support real-world communication
  • Use a simple checklist to keep proficiency at the center

No prep Speaking or Writing Tasks

  • Identify what makes a no-prep task communicative, not mechanical
  • Create adaptable prompts that work across content areas and proficiency levels
  • Turn visuals, routines, and readings into instant opportunities for real communication
  • Use student output as future input through reflection, sharing, and follow-up activities

Daily Strategies that Build Comprehension

  • Use quick comprehension strategies that can be embedded into everyday instruction.
  • Guide students to attend to meaning without relying on translation.
  • Support comprehension growth through routines that are flexible, repeatable, and proficiency-aligned.

Get All 12 Courses in a Growing Bundle for 20% Off ($96)

I will create more courses throughout the school year and will add them to the bundle.  You will get all future courses for free once you have the bundle.