In response to the needs of teachers for assistance in developing second language speaking and instructional skills, Tarrant County Junior College, Northeast Campus, designed a series of 10 16-hour workshops for teachers of foreign languages for summer 1989. The "Strategies for Proficiency Workshops" were intended primarily as in-service training for secondary foreign language teachers and secondarily as retraining for secondary teachers who specialized in areas other than languages, but who would be teaching languages during the coming year. The workshops focused on improving oral proficiency, confidence in speaking, instructional skills, test development, and such innovative techniques as teaching higher order thinking skills, creative evaluation techniques, visual-based curricula, computer-assisted materials design, and the Color Connection system of materials development. Participants were recruited through personally addressed letters sent to all foreign language teachers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and to all participants in prior workshops. A special effort was made to recruit and admit minority teachers throughout Texas. Evaluation of the workshops involved a comparison of pre- and post-test self-assessment questionnaires and in-class observations of a sampling of teachers during the following fall term. Participants in both French and Spanish language workshops perceived gains in both their speaking and understanding abilities and their instructional skills. Evaluation materials are appended. (AYC)