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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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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

Information & registration

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. 

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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.

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Past Events

ACTION! ASSESSING ACTIONABLE LEARNING TASKS IN CORE FRENCH - February 9, April 13 & May 4, 2023 | FREE

CONFERENCE "J'ENSEIGNE EN FRANÇAIS" | February 17, 2023

Garder son équilibre en s'appuyant sur des piliers de la littératie - January 18, 2022 and February 1 and 15, 2023

Appliquer l’approche identitaire dans mes classes de/en français - December 5 2022 , January 16, February 13, March 13 & April 17 2023

ENSEIGNER DANS UNE PERSPECTIVE DE PENSÉE HISTORIQUE! On en parle! - November 28, 2022, January 23 & February 27 2023

My L2 Teacher Identity - November 17 2022 , January 10, February  7, March 7 & April 11 2023

Bootcamp FrancoFUN -  Your summer institute in French! - July 11-15, 2022