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The pedagogical lead for multilingual education: their role, their training.

By the Kawi team · Updated 28 October 2026

Every daycare centre applying the multilingual education programme appoints a pedagogical lead from its care staff. This is the person who keeps the programme alive over time. Here is what is expected of them, how they train, and how the team can make their job easier, alongside our guide to the multilingual education programme.

Why every centre appoints one

The programme rests on three areas of action: children's language skills, partnership with parents, and networking with the school and with social and medical services. Without someone coordinating them, these three strands get scattered across groups and rotas. The lead is responsible for the coordination and continuity of the programme in the centre, working closely with management.

30 hours of training before starting

To be appointed, the lead must have completed a specific 30-hour training organised by the National Youth Service. They then take part in regular exchange meetings with other leads. The rest of the team is involved too: care staff follow 8 hours of continuing training on children's language development. These points are described in the programme's 2017-2020 review.

In a new centre, the lead is planned from the application stage: recognition as a childcare voucher provider is requested at the same time as the daycare licence.

Their duties within the team

• Develop with the team a pedagogical approach that covers the three areas of action.
• Make sure it appears in the centre's general action concept, and that its implementation is documented in the logbook.
• Build a continuing training plan on multilingual education with the team.

Their duties outside the centre

• Be the contact person for questions from parents and other stakeholders.
• Launch and follow up the partnership with parents.
• Launch and follow up networking with local associations, specialised services and the primary school.

What makes their job easier

A word routine shared by every group. A few Luxembourgish words a week, the same everywhere, make the programme visible without another meeting.

A simple bridge to families. Telling parents which words their child heard, with their pronunciation, feeds the partnership far more than a yearly meeting.

Records that are easy to log. What the children discovered during the week fits in two lines of the logbook.

This is where a tool like Kawi can serve the lead without taking their place: illustrated words, official pronunciation, a link to home. The full framework, the centre's obligations and the 20 free hours are in our page on multilingual education in daycare.

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