Professional Development
New opportunities for non-credit professional development with the Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs
OFFA with its Coordinator - Provincial network for teachers of French programs in British Columbia, are currently developing new non-credit professional development opportunities for teachers in core French, Immersion and Francophone programs.
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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
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If you have questions or requests for your school district, please contact us at: prof_baff@sfu.ca
Featured Event
FrancoFUN Week «J'enseigne en français» | July 2023
Week #1 - Immersion
- When: July 3-7, 2023, 9:30am-3pm
- Where: July 3-6 at SFU - Burnaby Campus and Friday July 7 at SFU - Vancouver Harbour Centre Campus
- For whom: French immersion teachers
Week #2 - Core French
- When: July 10 to 14, 2023, 9:30am-3:00pm
- Where: July 10-13 at SFU - Burnaby Campus and Friday July 14 at SFU - Vancouver Harbour Centre
- For whom: Core French teachers in grades 5-12
TEACHING LITERACY USING COMPELLING COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT IN FRENCH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE
April 3 & 24, 2023 | Free
Scaffold literacy in French and increase language proficiency by building a strong reading program in your Core French classroom using TPRS.
Session #1: Develop skills and strategies for co-creating and reading texts with students.
Session # 2: Foster a love of reading in the language classroom to develop fluency and higher levels of literacy in L2+.
- Audience: Core French teachers (grades 5-12), Intensive French teachers, Late French Immersion teachers (grades 6-7)
- Dates: April 3 & 24 — 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- Presented by: Michelle Metcalfe, West Vancouver School District teacher à
- Presented in English with some A1/A2 level French.
- This series of two 90-minute workshops is free.
EXPLORATION DU MODÈLE 'ÉCRI' POUR MIEUX SOUTENIR L’ÉCRITURE DE NOS ÉLÈVES
April 19 & May 17 2023| Free
This series of two workshops to explore the Coherent and Reasoned Writing in Immersion (CRWI) instructional model, a model for organizing writing instruction in five steps!
- Audience: Teachers (Grades 3 to 9) and Learning Support teachers in Francophone and Immersion programs
- Dates: April 19, May 17 — 3 :00 p.m.-4 :30 p.m.
- Presented by: Dr. Josée Le Bouthillier, member of the Second Language Research Institute of Canada and the Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick
- Presented in French.
- This series of two 90-minute workshops is free.