Our courses
Our professional courses are horizontal, establishing an equal partnership between the participants, where everyone learns from each other and, in this way, creates new connections and knowledge.

Our ultimate goal is to develop a model of teacher training consistent with the latest advances in education by designing programs that are in tune with the teachers’ classrooms. This is how we foster the atmosphere of trust that enhances the acceptance of challenges in education.
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Ultimately, everything we do is designed to develop excellent educators.

What do we offer?
Professional Learning Courses 
Our rigorous Professional Learning Coursesare based on the latest research along with years of experience in training educators. In all our courses, the participants will acquire tools and techniques that they can adapt to their own classrooms.

The content of these sessions is defined by the context and needs of the participants.

We design courses for teachers of bilingual programs and for teachers of Spanish as a Second Language.

This is a list of some of the topics we have already developed:
  • Diversity in the classroom
  • Support techniques in oral development 
  • Framework for a new dual language program
  • The Spanish of teachers and of students
  • Skills development: learning to listen
  • Skills development: learning to learn
  • Games in the development of oral expression
  • Literary texts adapted to different Spanish levels 
  • Interaction development in the Math class
  • Oral development and its role in thinking
  • What do we mean by a “good activity?” Criteria for analysis
  • Skills development: the oral interaction
  • Skills development: the written interaction
  • How to improve our students’ motivation
  • Group dynamics to improve written expression
  • How do we learn new vocabulary?
  • The use of new technology in the classroom
  • Redefining the teacher’s role
Coaching
In this type of training, a close link is established between the teacher and the trainer, which creates an environment of trust, where it is easier to introduce changes or to try new materials or methods. It also complements the implementation of dual programs.

Academic Spanish for Teachers
This Spanish course in academic contexts is taught in 10 sessions of 2 hours each and has a maximum of 10 participants. It is especially recommended for:
  • Teachers, administrators, and staff who want to communicate with Spanish-speaking students or their families
  • Spanish teachers who want to improve their communication and accuracy in the classroom
  • Teachers, administrators and school staff who want to learn a new language as a means of personal development.
Learning Communities
Learning communities encourage collaboration and provide a more efficient use of resources, both economic and human, by fostering peer training. These courses aim to facilitate the creation of communities in schools to give visibility to the teachers’ work, helping to create a space to share with others, to reflect, and to continue to innovate.

What are our sessions like?
The key to The Multilingual Classroom is that, although the sessions are based on extensive theoretical research, in practice they are precisely that: practical.

​The duration of the workshops can be from two or three hours or they can be spread over several days, depending on the teachers’ or group’s needs.

The methodology is realistic and focuses on action, based on an ad-hoc assessment of the contextual needs of teachers and educational institutions.

These organic sessions start from an outline but, by promoting reflection and incorporating feedback, they lead the group to determine their own path.

What makes us different?
The Multilingual Classroom is not a theoretical course although our programs are firmly based upon research in the field of education. We use the same techniques during professional learning sessions that teachers can use in their classrooms. Therefore, all our professional learning courses benefit both the teacher and his/her students.