Multilingual Team Teaching: Connecting Language, Learning and Engagement

This workshop introduces Multilingual Team Teaching (MTT), a whole-school approach that brings subject learning, language development and teacher collaboration together. Drawing on a heteroglossic developmental bilingual model, participants will explore how multilingual teaching can move beyond translation, enabling pupils to draw purposefully on their full linguistic repertoires to deepen understanding, develop academic vocabulary and strengthen engagement in learning. Through practical examples and a hands-on task, participants will consider the language demands within subject learning, collaborative teaching approaches and the systems needed to make multilingual practice consistent and sustainable across a school.

Presenter

Danijela Pop-Jovanov

Deputy Principal
The King's School Vattanacville

Danijela Pop-Jovanov is Deputy Principal at The King’s School Vattanacville in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Before joining the school, she held senior leadership roles at Dipont Education headquarters, including Academic Manager and Senior Academic Lead, and previously held middle and senior leadership positions in China and Serbia. She holds an International MEd in Educational Leadership and Policy, an MA in English Philology and a BA in English Language and Literature, alongside specialist SEND training. With 25 years of teaching and leadership experience, Danijela specialises in quality assurance, curriculum and assessment design, programme evaluation, teacher development and evidence-informed improvement across international and bilingual education.