National Consortium for Languages Education
UCL Institute of Education
NCLE CPD Webinars
Participate alongside teachers across the country
An opportunity for you to join NCLE’s national community of languages teachers and explore some of the themes covered on the LEO platform alongside broader contextual and current issues.
- Free (both live and catch-up)
- For languages teachers and school leaders in languages
- Research-informed, evidence based content with expert speakers and NCLE Language Network lead schools
- Explore latest trends in pedagogy and languages leadership
- Develop your own practice and professional agency
- Dovetails with the LEO professional learning platform
2025-26 NCLE Webinar Schedule
LEO (Language Educators Online): NCLE’s New CPD Platform!
Wednesday 8th October 2025
4-5pm
We are delighted to introduce our new professional learning platform: LEO. Tour our interactive, flexible and engaging professional learning platform in this webinar. Learn how experts, initial teacher trainers, classroom teachers and school leaders are using LEO to transform and enhance languages provision, pedagogy and practice in their settings. Meet some of the faces who feature on the platform!
Curriculum and Assessment Review: Languages education fit for purpose?
Wednesday 26th November 2025 4-5pm
In response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review publication, join a virtual roundtable and hear from stakeholders from the languages community and the DfE discussing the recommendations for the Curriculum and Assessment Review. How will the recommendations transform and impact languages education for the future? Share your views in an interactive Q&A.
Languages for all – a social justice issue
Wednesday 21st January 2026
4-5pm
Languages are transformative. Every child deserves the opportunity to learn new languages in addition to those they already know. In this webinar, we’ll be exploring different curriculum models and pedagogical approaches which offer appropriate cognitive, cultural and linguistic challenge. How do we plan and deliver lessons which relate to the learners whom we teach? How do we create an ethos of success? You will hear from practising teachers from the UK and international experts.
Talking classrooms: practical ideas from promoting use of the target language
Wednesday 11th February 2026
4-5pm
Using the target language as the medium of instruction as well as the object of study has always been contentious. With inspiration from practising teachers discover how interaction in the target language is not only accessible but makes a central contribution to progress in language learning. Let’s get our classrooms talking!
