How to Adapt Teaching for Learners Who Use EAL (Online Course)

Who is this course for?

• Teaching staff;

• Teaching assistants;

• EAL coordinators.

Please note: this course is not available to international schools. Please click here to view our upcoming Language for Results International online courses.

Course structure:

Module 1:

Pre-webinar online tasks, completed at your own pace over a one-week period.

You will:

• Learn about the core principles underpinning effective adaptive teaching for EAL learners, and consider how these might overlap with or differ from adaptive teaching strategies for all learners.

• Explore some effective strategies that you can implement immediately to better support your learners using EAL.

• Evaluate different strategies and consider their use in your own teaching context.

• Learn about translanguaging and how it can be used to enhance learning for multilingual learners.

Time commitment: minimum 1 hour.

Module 2:

Live interactive webinar with the course tutors:

• Primary: 11 November 2026, 16:00-17:00.

• Secondary: 12 November 2026, 16:00-17:00.

You will:

• Learn about the importance of proficiency in English for learners using EAL.

• Consider different ways of adapting teaching by:​

• Adapting EAL strategies for different English proficiency bands;​

• Adapting curriculum activities for different learners.​

• Adapting pre-existing resources or materials.

Time commitment: 1 hour.

Module 3:

You will:

• Explore in more depth how to successfully adapt different activities for EAL learners.

• Apply what you have learned in Modules 1 and 2 by completing a final project where you can choose to adapt a specific strategy, adapt a curricular task or evaluate and adapt and existing resource.

Time commitment: minimum 1 hour.

Why learn with us?

• The course includes three online modules and is designed to work around the busy lives of those working in schools.

• With three hours of online study over a four to five-week period, this course enables you to work at a manageable pace with plenty of time to process course content and consider the relevance to your context.

• The course is designed to be highly interactive and collaborative, with opportunities to work with other course participants, course tutors, and course material.

• Module 2 is a live webinar with opportunities to ask questions and share good practice in real time.

Tickets are available for either primary or secondary practitioners. You will receive a certificate for successful completion of the course.

Independent UK schools will be charged the standard rate with the income generated enabling The Bell Foundation to further its charitable goals.

For those who are not from a school (e.g. charities or local authority EMTAS teams), please email uk.training@bell-foundation.org.uk for pricing information.

For all bookings: Please ensure the attendee’s email address is used, not the email address of a school finance officer or administrator, to ensure that course messages and materials can be shared.