Pluriliteracies in Action: Transform your teaching practices at the primary and/or secondary Level

As a school leader, you want students to think, communicate, and write with the clarity expected in each discipline. Yet many secondary students understand concepts but struggle to express them academically. This limits deeper learning, weakens assessment results, and affects progress across subjects. This one-day Pluriliteracies course gives your teachers a practical, research-based framework to close this gap. It shows language and subject teachers how to develop students’ disciplinary literacy — the specific ways of using language, communication, and reasoning needed in each subject. For your school, the impact is immediate. Teachers gain shared tools and a common approach, improving coherence between departments. Students learn to explain ideas clearly, structure their thinking, write academically, and transfer knowledge across tasks. This strengthens conceptual learning, raises assessment performance, and better supports multilingual and diverse learners. Investing in this course also reinforces inclusion and equity. Teachers learn to scaffold complex texts, make thinking visible, and guide students in producing disciplinary genres such as scientific explanations, historical arguments, or analytical commentaries. This supports whole-school improvement goals and aligns teaching practices. What your teachers will learn: – Help students speak and think like experts – Use varied communication modes to show understanding – Guide academic writing across genres – Identify discipline-specific language and genre features – Clarify key language functions for each subject – Make thinking and reflection visible – Support conceptual learning and transfer – Use a practical toolkit of adaptable activities Content includes: – Overview of the Pluriliteracies Approach – Key research insights – Practical tasks: video, analysis, reflection – Classroom-tested strategies Duration: 1 full day Audience: Secondary language & subject teachers Certificate: Certificate of Mastery