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Project Overview
- Research topics
- Region: National
- Project Overview
Project status
- In progress :
- April 2024-March 2026
Project manager or
resource person
- Chantal Bourbonnais
- Executive Director
Association canadienne des professionnels de l'immersion (ACPI)
Increase, accompany and support the pool of new teachers for French immersion programs
This project aims to increase the pool of new teachers for French immersion (FI) programs by offering tools to promote and supervise internships. It consists of 2 components:
1. Initially, the aim is to increase internship opportunities in immersion classrooms by raising awareness of their importance among ACPI members. Coaching and resources are offered to the teacher receiving the intern as well as to the person doing the internship. The aim is to encourage current French immersion teachers to take on interns, and to raise the profile of internships among students enrolled in the 40 Canadian universities offering qualifying programs in teaching French as a second language, in French immersion or in French.
2. In a second phase, we offer support to newly hired teaching staff by facilitating their transition and successful integration into French immersion programs. They are also offered support in enriching their language skills, as well as pedagogical coaching.
This component is a continuation of ACPI's successful career launch program, for which there is considerable demand.
Targeted Results
The pool of new teachers for French immersion programs has grown.
The successful transition and integration of newly hired French immersion teachers is encouraged.
Improvement of immersion teachers' language skills.
Each year, 50 new teachers (in every province and territory except Nunavut) take part in the pedagogical support project, along with 10 pedagogical coaches.
Each year, 150 teachers across Canada take part in the language coaching project (and between 20 and 50 language coaches).
Increased awareness of the state of recruitment and retention of teachers in French immersion and French as a second language programs.
French immersion programs continue to improve and contribute to the bilingual development of a greater number of Canadians.
More teachers have a sense of self-efficacy and are available to teach in French immersion and French as a second language programs, in both urban and rural settings.
Reduced teacher turnover in French immersion and French as a second language programs.
Potential/desired collaborations
Universities with a faculty of Education
- To promote our services to those responsible for student internships.
School boards, divisions and districts
- To welcome more trainees
