This online course for international school staff equips you to adapt teaching in a responsive way to meet the language development needs of multilingual learners alongside curriculum learning. The course introduces a range of effective strategies that you can implement immediately into your teaching to make lessons more accessible for pupils who use English as an Additional Language (EAL) while maintaining high expectations of all learners. Participants will also explore how to adapt strategies and materials for learners at different English proficiency levels and practice applying these ideas to their own teaching context.
Who is this course for?
All primary and secondary practitioners, including:
- EAL teachers;
- Subject teachers;
- Teaching assistants.
Please note: This course is for international participants only. Please click here to view our upcoming online courses for those living and working in the UK.
Course structure:
Module 1: Effective EAL strategies
Pre-webinar online tasks, completed at your own pace over a one-week period.
You will:
- Learn about the core principles underpinning effective adaptive teaching for EAL learners and consider how these might overlap with or differ from adaptive teaching strategies for all learners.
- Explore some effective strategies that you can implement immediately to better support your learners using EAL.
- Evaluate different strategies and consider their use in your own teaching context.
- Learn about translanguaging and how it can be used to enhance learning for multilingual learners.
Time commitment: minimum 2 hours.
Module 2: Adapting strategies and materials for multilingual learners
Live interactive webinar with the course tutors:
- Primary: 12 November 2025, 11:00 UK time (UTC+0).
- Secondary: 13 November 2025, 11:00 UK time (UTC+0).
You will:
- Learn about the research on language proficiency and academic achievement.
- Consider different ways to adapt EAL strategies for different English proficiency levels.
- Consider how to adapt curricular materials for different profiles of EAL learner.
Time commitment: 1 hour.
Module 3: Implementation
You will:
- Explore in more depth how to successfully adapt different activities for EAL learners.
- Complete a final project where you can choose to adapt a specific strategy, adapt a curricular task or evaluate and adapt and existing resource.
- Receive developmental feedback from your tutor on your project.
Time commitment: minimum 2 hours.
Why learn with us?
- The three online modules are designed to work around the busy lives of professionals in international schools.
- With five hours of online study over a five-week period, this course enables you to work at a manageable pace with plenty of time to process course content and apply relevant insights to your context.
- The course is designed to be highly interactive and collaborative, with opportunities to work with other course participants, course tutors and course material.
- Module 2 consists of a live webinar with opportunities to ask questions and share good practice in real time.
- A certificate will be awarded for successful completion of the course.
- Tickets are available for both primary and secondary practitioners in international schools.
Tutors
All our tutors are experienced teacher educators with substantial experience of teaching and assessing multilingual learners in relevant contexts. Tutors are trained e-moderators and offer friendly, practical specialist support to all participants throughout the course.
Ticket sales end 28 October 2025, 16:00 UK time (UTC +0).
Important notice: There are only two websites authorised to promote and take bookings for this event run by The Bell Foundation. These are: The Bell Foundation’s website and Eventbrite. Please do not book, or express interest in, this event through any other website.
