Comprehensible Input and Proficiency
Focusing on reading proficiency builds your students' reading skills that will let them access real Roman voices and allows you to prioritize what you do with your time in the classroom. Assessing for proficiency as you adjust your practice allows you to experiment and hone your craft. I primarily measure proficiency using comprehension questions in English but there are a lot of other ways to keep tabs during a lesson. These fall roughly into 4 categories: Using English, using Latin, Acting and drawing.
I am not a purist on comprehensible input and will differ to others to explain and define it. What I have taken from it is that students need regular exposure to understandable and interesting Latin and that Latin needs to have a lot of repetitions to really sink in. I avoid all translation minus clarifying the meaning of single words because I want students not to fall in the habit of translating which will eventually really slow their comprehension of a text down. I also find many novellas and comprehensible input approaches actually move a little slower than the speed my students really find engaging and at which have demonstrated they can acquire language.
These are the blogs/podcasts I find helpful
Most helpful Facebook group: Teaching Latin for Acquisition. Especially it's remarkable files section and even juicier google drives associated with it's curriculum groups (if you can't find these just email me).