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 easy-to-use 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.
Who is this course for?
All primary and secondary practitioners, including:
- 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:
Pre-webinar online tasks, completed at your own pace over a one-week period.
You will:
- Consider how proficiency in English and other key factors can affect academic achievement of multilingual 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.
Time commitment: minimum 2 hours.
Module 2:
Live interactive webinar with the course tutors:
- Primary: 21 May 2025, 11:00 UK time (UTC+1).
- Secondary: 22 May 2025, 11:00 UK time (UTC+1).
You will:
- Explore in more depth strategies for developing writing and oracy and ways to adapt them to work with EAL learners at different proficiency levels.
Time commitment: 1 hour.
Module 3:
Final project to implement learning from the course, followed by tutor feedback. You will apply what you have learned in modules 1 and 2 by designing a task or sequence of tasks for your own teaching practice, using the strategies presented on the course.
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 6 May 2025, 16:00 UK time (UTC +1).
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.
