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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, intercultural understanding, and you
This workshop will explore who you are as an educator and how your identities influence your pedagogies and relationships with learners. Join expert teacher Karen Devonish-Mazzotta on a journey into Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogy. Together, we will take a deep dive into Intercultural Awareness and Understanding and explore the important connections between the tenets of …
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Science and Technology Inquiries for the FSL Remote Learning – (session bilingue)
Calling all FSL teachers ~ Curious about how to engage your students in Science and Technology in a remote learning environment? Are you finding it hard to think of ways to do science experiments safely and remotely? Check out our STAO’s Project Innovation French as a Second Language Science and Technology Inquiries. French teachers from …
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Let’s Solve this Problem! Shifting our International Languages Classes from Spoken Production to Interaction
The revised (2016) curriculum for International Languages finally has a focus on interaction, which represents the vast majority of real-life language use that our students will continue to use in their personal and professional lives. Whether our students learn Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Mandarin, or any of the other 72 International Languages offered in our …
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Using Assessment as Learning to Increase Student Proficiency in FSL
With the implementation of the revised FSL curriculum now well underway, an ongoing struggle for classroom teachers is how to increase student proficiency in the target language. Working with communication goals instead of isolated structures, teachers are striving to develop confidence and real-world language with students. How can we scaffold the necessary skills and provide …
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Building Student Confidence and Participation in Core-FSL
In 2013, the Ontario Ministry of Education published ““A Framework for French as a Second Language in Ontario Schools”, intended to guide the development of FSL programs across the province. This document identifies goals for FSL education in Ontario which include greater student confidence and proficiency, and increased retention to Grade 12. In this webinar, …