Webinar: Supporting multilingual classrooms
Thursday, 16 October 2025,
16:00 -17:15 (CET - Graz time)
- Are you committed to the inclusion and integration of ALL your learners in schools and classrooms, regardless of their background?
- Are you experiencing increasing numbers of children coming to school with languages other than the main language used in the school?
- Do teachers, teacher trainers, policymakers and other colleagues involved in the education of 0–19-year-olds need to learn about new and effective, research-informed approaches to learning and teaching in increasingly multilingual classrooms in your context?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, then the webinar Supporting multilingual classrooms will be of interest to you.
The webinar will focus on ‘Supporting multilingual classrooms’, an i nitiative of the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) and the European Commission which has, to date, conducted 81 training workshops to different target groups in 30 Member States of the European Union and the ECML on relating language curricula, tests and examinations to the CEFR in a valid and reliable way.
The long-term objective of our workshops is to enable learners with a migrant background – whether recently migrated or from long-established communities – to be better integrated into national education systems, leading to better educational achievement, which in turn will contribute to improved self-esteem, better employment prospects and a more cohesive and democratic society. The workshops enable member States to support the ambitious, inclusive approaches addressed in Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)1 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the importance of plurilingual and intercultural education for democratic culture, as well as in the European Council’s Recommendation (2019) on a comprehensive approach to the teaching and learning of languages
The webinar, as with the workshops, is not just aimed at language teachers. It involves a more holistic approach, addressing:
- whole-school policies and strategies to support the integration of plurilingual learners
- holistic approaches to language learning and teaching including the language of schooling, the language of schooling as a second language, foreign languages, home languages, regional/minority languages
- challenges facing non-language teachers and how to adapt pedagogical approaches in all subjects to meet the needs of migrant learners
The webinar will provide insights into the ‘Supporting Multilingual Classrooms’ workshops with inputs provided by the team as well as national representatives. We will explore the motivations for member States to host our workshops and how they have made a key contribution to curriculum and policy development and achieved impact in their various contexts.
The webinar will also offer the opportunity to interact with the moderators through posting questions in a chat function.
Languages: French and English
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p3zGypndQmGwRkJwz21MYA
