Rethinking Language Learning: CLIL for deeper understanding

As a school leader, you want students not only to access content but to understand it deeply, explain it clearly, and express their learning with confidence. Yet in many classrooms, students grasp ideas without being able to articulate them in the language of instruction. This affects assessment performance, limits participation, and hides their true potential.

This course gives your teachers a powerful, practical approach to ensure that language becomes a bridge — not a barrier — to learning. Designed for both language teachers and subject teachers, it shows how to structure lessons around students’ language needs so academic concepts become clearer, more explicit, and fully transferable.

For your school, the benefits are significant. Teachers gain concrete strategies to make disciplinary language visible, scaffold academic texts, and help students verbalize and refine their thinking. This leads to stronger comprehension, clearer explanations, better writing, and more meaningful engagement with content. When teachers across departments adopt a shared language-based approach, your curriculum becomes more coherent and your students gain the tools they need to succeed across subjects.

Investing in this course also directly supports your inclusion goals. It equips teachers to provide accessible, age-appropriate cognitive challenge for all learners, especially multilingual students or those who struggle to decode academic language. You strengthen equity, raise the quality of classroom communication, and ensure that every learner can demonstrate their understanding.

What your teachers will learn:
– Help students think and communicate like disciplinary experts
– Use varied communication modes to deepen understanding
– Scaffold academic texts to support all language levels
– Guide students in producing clear, structured academic writing
– Clarify the language functions essential to each subject
– Make thinking and metacognition visible
– Support deeper learning and conceptual transfer
– Use a practical, adaptable toolkit for immediate classroom use

Audience: Both language teachers and subject teachers in primary and secondary education

Duration: 1 full day or 2 half-days

Dates: upon request
Certificate: Certificate of Mastery