Teacher CPD · Primary Schools EPV / Summer

Teaching MFL in the Primary Classroom

This CPD equips primary teachers to deliver Modern Foreign Languages confidently using the Language Facilitator model, even without fluency. It covers curriculum alignment, high-quality digital resource selection, native-speaker audio strategies, Total Physical Response, gamification, CLIL integration, intercultural awareness, and assessment through the European Language Portfolio. Teachers gain practical tools to embed MFL meaningfully across the crowded curriculum while fostering multilingual awareness and whole-school progression.
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EPV / Summer Course
€79
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What's included
  • Self paced
  • Online course
  • Step-by-step lessons
  • Certificate from Coding Ireland
Approved by
Drumcondra Education Centre Department of Education

Explore the Course

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.

Welcome and Confidence Audit
The Primary Curriculum Framework for MFL
The Language Facilitator Model
The Online Learning Platform as Your Partner

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.

Evaluating, Selecting and Mapping Resources
The Native Speaker Audio Strategy
Differentiation Through Digital Resources

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.

Total Physical Response in Action
Understanding TPR
Designing TPR Activities
Gamification for Language Learning
Gamifying Vocabulary Learning
Inclusive Game Design
Stage 3 Multilingual Awareness Activities
Designing Multilingual Awareness Activities

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.

CLIL in Primary Schools
Understanding CLIL
Designing CLIL Lessons
Intercultural Awareness
Intercultural Awareness and Linguistic Diversity

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.

Assessment Approaches: Using the European Language Portfolio
Can-do Assessment and Digital Portfolios
Finding Time: MFL in the Crowded Curriculum
Planning and Whole-school Integration
Your First 6 Weeks Plan
SSE and Whole-school Integration

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.

Welcome and Confidence Audit
The Primary Curriculum Framework for MFL
The Language Facilitator Model
The Online Learning Platform as Your Partner

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.

Evaluating, Selecting and Mapping Resources
The Native Speaker Audio Strategy
Differentiation Through Digital Resources

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.

Total Physical Response in Action
Understanding TPR
Designing TPR Activities
Gamification for Language Learning
Gamifying Vocabulary Learning
Inclusive Game Design
Stage 3 Multilingual Awareness Activities
Designing Multilingual Awareness Activities

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.

CLIL in Primary Schools
Understanding CLIL
Designing CLIL Lessons
Intercultural Awareness
Intercultural Awareness and Linguistic Diversity

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.

Assessment Approaches: Using the European Language Portfolio
Can-do Assessment and Digital Portfolios
Finding Time: MFL in the Crowded Curriculum
Planning and Whole-school Integration
Your First 6 Weeks Plan
SSE and Whole-school Integration

What You'll Learn

Learning Goals

  1. Apply the Language Facilitator model to teach Modern Foreign Languages effectively without native-level fluency
  2. Evaluate, select and align digital resources to the Primary Curriculum Framework using UDL principles
  3. Design and deliver TPR, gamified vocabulary activities and multilingual awareness lessons that are inclusive and engaging
  4. Integrate short CLIL moments and intercultural awareness activities across the primary curriculum
  5. Plan a progressive six-week MFL programme, implement Can-do assessment with digital portfolios, and lead whole-school integration through SSE

Learning Outcomes

  1. Conduct a personal confidence audit across the four key pedagogical frameworks and explain the Language Facilitator model
  2. Evaluate and map digital resources to the Primary Curriculum Framework for MFL using five quality criteria and Universal Design for Learning principles
  3. Design and sequence Total Physical Response (TPR) activities and gamified vocabulary lessons that incorporate inclusive and multilingual awareness elements
  4. Create short CLIL moments and intercultural awareness activities that integrate the target language into existing primary subjects while avoiding cultural stereotypes
  5. Develop a first six-week MFL teaching plan, design a Can-do assessment checklist using the European Language Portfolio, and produce a SMART School Self-Evaluation target for whole-school MFL integration

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