Building Bridges: Highlights from Our Teacher Workshop in Nepal
On April 4, we held a dynamic one-day workshop in Lalitpur, Nepal as part of our ELTRA 2024 project, focused on Empowering Teachers to Adopt Multilingual Pedagogies. The workshop brought together 12 dedicated teachers, local researchers (Dr. Prem Poudel and Prof. Ganga Gautam), and online contributions from Dr. Taehee Choi, Dr. Siham Rouabah and Dr. Shuling Wang. The day featured teacher-led reflections on their experiences so far, collaborative lesson planning by subject groups, and guided sessions on integrating translanguaging strategies into classroom practice. Teachers discussed sample lesson plans and co-developed practical activities and content for a forthcoming multilingual teacher guide.
Highlights included peer feedback on lesson plans, sharing of good practices, and hands-on sessions on writing effective reflections on lesson plans—critical for enhancing participation and inclusivity across gender, ethnicity, and language background.
This was just the beginning. We are excited to continue this work during our upcoming two-day in-person workshop in late June, to be facilitated by Dr. Choi. Together, we are building a supportive community of educators committed to linguistic inclusion and pedagogical transformation in Nepali classrooms.
