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Teaching MFL in the Primary Classroom

Teach a modern foreign language in your primary classroom, even if you are not fluent.

  • 20 hours
  • 19 short lessons
  • Online, at your own pace
  • Certificate
Enrol now · €79

About this course

A course for primary teachers bringing a modern foreign language into their classroom, fluent or not. You learn to lead the learning while native-speaker audio models the language, to choose good resources and map them to the curriculum, and to use Total Physical Response, vocabulary games and short lessons in another subject taught through the new language. It covers language awareness in a multilingual classroom, can-do assessment with the European Language Portfolio, and finding time in a full week. You finish with a plan for your first six weeks and ideas for taking languages across the school.

What you will be able to do

By the end you will be able to teach a modern foreign language without being fluent, plan active lessons with movement and games, teach a little of another subject through the new language, assess with can-do statements, and fit the language into a busy week with a clear six-week plan.

What's in the course

19 lessons, 35 to 46 minutes each. Take them in order, whenever suits you.

Module 1 · 4 lessons
Understanding the Primary Curriculum and the Facilitator Model

Participants explore the Primary Curriculum Framework for MFL (Stages 3 and 4), establish a baseline of teaching confidence, and adopt the Language Facilitator mindset, a pedagogical approach that lets teachers deliver MFL confidently without being fluent speakers. They orient themselves to the online learning platform and native-speaker audio as their co-teacher.
  1. 1 Welcome and Confidence Audit 40 min
  2. 2 The Primary Curriculum Framework for MFL 40 min
  3. 3 The Language Facilitator Model 40 min
  4. 4 The Online Learning Platform as Your Partner 40 min
Module 2 · 3 lessons
Finding the Right Resources: Navigation, Selection and Curriculum Alignment

Participants learn to navigate, evaluate, and curate high-quality digital resources, build a personal native-speaker audio bank, and apply UDL principles so that audio-visual materials support the learning intention and reach all learners.
  1. 5 Evaluating, Selecting and Mapping Resources 40 min
  2. 6 The Native Speaker Audio Strategy 42 min
  3. 7 Differentiation Through Digital Resources 40 min
Module 3 · 5 lessons
Active Methodologies: Gamification and Total Physical Response

Participants master active, low-anxiety methodologies. They design TPR sequences, adapt classic games for vocabulary learning, ensure games are inclusive of all readers and learners with SEN, and design Stage 3 multilingual awareness activities that draw on classroom home languages.
  1. 8 Understanding TPR 40 min
  2. 9 Designing TPR Activities 41 min
  3. 10 Gamifying Vocabulary Learning 40 min
  4. 11 Inclusive Game Design 40 min
  5. 12 Designing Multilingual Awareness Activities 43 min
Module 4 · 3 lessons
Integration (CLIL) and Intercultural Awareness

Participants explore CLIL strategies to maximise language contact time across subjects, design a CLIL lesson moment using the 4Cs, and develop intercultural awareness, helping children appreciate cultures sensitively while positioning EAL students as language experts.
  1. 13 Understanding CLIL 45 min
  2. 14 Designing CLIL Lessons 35 min
  3. 15 Intercultural Awareness and Linguistic Diversity 40 min
Module 5 · 4 lessons
Assessment, Planning and the Whole-school Approach

Participants build a Can-Do assessment strategy aligned with the European Language Portfolio, solve the timetabling challenge of a crowded curriculum, synthesise their learning into a First 6 Weeks plan, re-measure their self-efficacy against the baseline, and draft an SSE target to embed MFL across the school.
  1. 16 Can-do Assessment and Digital Portfolios 46 min
  2. 17 Finding Time: MFL in the Crowded Curriculum 40 min
  3. 18 Your First 6 Weeks Plan 38 min
  4. 19 SSE and Whole-school Integration 41 min

What you get

A certificateFor 20 hours of professional learning, when you finish.
Your own portfolioEverything you write in the course collects in one place to keep.
At your own paceShort online lessons you can stop and start whenever suits you.

Ready to start?

19 short lessons, at your own pace, with a certificate at the end.

Enrol now · €79
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