Pluriliteracies in Action: Transform your teaching practices

As a school leader, you want students not only to learn content but to think, communicate, and write as true subject-matter experts. Yet across secondary schools, one challenge persists: students often understand concepts but cannot express them with the clarity, structure, or academic precision required for deeper learning and successful assessment. This gap limits achievement in every discipline.

This one-day Pluriliteracies course gives your teachers a powerful, research-based framework to bridge that gap. It equips language and subject teachers with practical strategies to develop students’ disciplinary literacy — the language, modes of communication, and thinking processes specific to each subject.

For your school, the impact is significant.

• Teachers gain shared tools and a common pedagogical language, strengthening coherence across departments.
• Students learn to reason more clearly, explain their understanding, write with structure, and transfer knowledge across tasks and subjects.

This improves assessment outcomes, deepens conceptual learning, and supports multilingual and diverse learners more effectively.

By investing in this course, you also strengthen inclusion and equity: teachers learn how to make thinking visible, scaffold complex texts, and guide students in producing academic genres, from scientific explanations to historical arguments and literary commentaries. This brings greater alignment to your curriculum and supports whole-school improvement goals.

What your teachers will learn:
– Encourage students to speak and think like experts in each discipline
– Offer varied modes of communication to show cognitive understanding
– Guide students in producing academic texts across genres
– Identify discipline-specific language and genre features
– Clarify the language functions tied to each subject
– Make students’ thinking and self-reflection visible
– Support the shift from isolated facts to conceptual learning and transfer
– Use a practical, adaptable toolkit of activities and resources

Content includes:
– Overview of the Pluriliteracies Approach
– Key research insights and their classroom implications
– Practical tasks: videos, analysis, reflection, tools
– Classroom-tested strategies and resources

Duration: 1 full day
Target Audience: Secondary language and subject teachers
Certificate: Certificate of Mastery