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Thank you to all the teaching professionals who joined us for the 2024 edition of the FrancoFUN Week!
We look forward to welcoming you or seeing you again for the 2025 edition of this professional development week in French for all teachers of the French programs!
If you are a Core French, French immersion or Intensive French program teacher and want to deepen your teaching practices through authentic learning situations, this week is for you!
immersion program
Tuesday, July 2: Building Our Community
- Welcome breakfast
- Relaxing soft start activities
- Workshop: Construisons une communaut茅 d'apprentissage accueillante
- Campus walk and lunch at the Dining Commons
- Atelier: Mon identit茅 professionnelle et linguistique
- Reflections and sharing
Wednesday, July 3: Collaborating to build connections
- Collaborative activities and games
- Workshop: Placer la collaboration au coeur de l'apprentissage
- Picnic at Deer Lake
- Apprendre de et par la terre: utiliser la nature comme outil d'apprentissage
- Visit of the Burnaby Village Museum & scavenger hunt
Thursday, July 4: Providing support and engaging your French learners in the process of developing their competencies
- Collaborative activities and games
- Workshop: Inclure et soutenir les apprenant路es en classe d'immersion
- Campus walk and lunch at the Dining Commons
- Workshop: Quoi faire de l鈥檃nglais? Trouver l鈥櫭﹒uilibre entre la polici猫re et le laisser-faire
Friday, July 5: Enjoying ourselves while reinforcing our community connections in Vancouver!
- Workshop: Les albums jeunesse: une richesse en classe d'immersion
- Cultural activity: Th茅芒tre la Seizi猫me
- Lunch at
- Escape room
- Reflections and sharing
Core French Program
Tuesday, July 2: Building Our Community
- Welcome breakfast
- Relaxing soft start activities
- Workshop: Build a welcoming learning community: making connections and collaborating to facilitate learning French
- Campus walk and lunch at the Dining Commons
- Workshop: The Action-oriented Approach: interacting through games
- Reflections and sharing
Wednesday, July 3: Collaborating to build connections
- Collaborative activities and games
- Workshop: My professional identity as a French teacher
- Picnic at Deer Lake
- Learning from and with the land: using nature as a pedagogical tool
- Visit of the Burnaby Village Museum & scavenger hunt
Thursday, July 4: Providing support and engaging your French learners in the process of developing their competencies
- Collaborative activities and games
- Workshop: Habits of the Effective Bilingual Person: Guidelines for Retention and Motivation of Students
- Campus walk and lunch at the Dining Commons
- Workshop: Beginner's Core French: Free resources and unit plans to build a foundation of French from 911吃瓜-OFFA
- Reflections and sharing
Friday, July 5: Enjoying ourselves while reinforcing our community connections in Vancouver!
- Cultural activity: Th茅芒tre La Seizi猫me
- Workshop: Aucun mot, aucun probl猫me: Picture Books to develop competencies in Core French
- Lunch at
- Escape room
- Reflections and sharing
911吃瓜 the workhops presented by Dre Monica Tang
TUESDAY, July 2 PM | 12:45 to 2:45 p.m.
芦&苍产蝉辫;Mon identit茅 professionnelle et linguistique 禄 (immersion)
En Colombie-Britannique, environ 60-75% des enseignant路es de/en fran莽ais ont le fran莽ais comme langue seconde L2 (ou additionelle L+). Quand on travaille dans sa L2/L+, notre travail peut 锚tre tr猫s satisfaisant parce qu鈥檕n a la chance de partager avec la prochaine g茅n茅ration le plaisir unique de d茅couvrir ce que l鈥檕n est capable de faire dans une autre langue.
But sometimes, we wonder:
- 芦&苍产蝉辫;Is my French good enough? 禄
- 鈥淒o others judge me for the mistakes that I (might) make?鈥�
- 鈥淒oes anyone notice that I avoid speaking in front of other francophones?鈥�
- 鈥淒o others think that my low confidence in French (in front of adults) means I鈥檓 also a bad teacher?鈥�
- 鈥淲ould I be better off teaching in English, instead of teaching in Immersion?鈥�
Cette session (bilingue) ouvrira une discussion franche par rapport 脿 la perception de son identit茅 linguistique comme enseignant路e de fran莽ais, afin de pouvoir mieux comprendre comment l鈥檌dentit茅 peut 锚tre 芦&苍产蝉辫;n茅goci茅e 禄 et comment sa confiance peut augmenter. 脌 l鈥檃ide des quatre dispositions id茅ales d鈥檜ne personne bilingue que pr茅sentera Monica, cette session aidera 脿 cr茅er une intention et direction concr猫tes 脿 la semaine FrancoFun.
THURSDAY, July 4 AM | 9:45 to 11:45 a.m.
芦&苍产蝉辫;Quoi faire de l鈥檃nglais? Trouver l鈥櫭﹒uilibre entre la polici猫re et le laisser-faire 禄 (Immersion)
En immersion fran莽aise, il est normal que nos 茅l猫ves aient parfois recours 脿 l鈥檃nglais pour communiquer, puisque c鈥檈st leur langue dominante, dans la majorit茅 des cas. Toutefois, 莽a peut 锚tre difficile de les encourager 脿 parler le fran莽ais le plus possible. La solution n鈥檈st pas un seul syst猫me mais bien un ensemble de pratiques qui tiennent compte des besoins langagiers et 茅motifs ainsi que le d茅veloppement des habilet茅s d鈥檃uto-r茅gulation de nos 茅l猫ves.
WEDNESDAY, July 3 AM | 9:45 to 11:45 a.m.
芦&苍产蝉辫;My professional identity as a French teacher 禄 (Core French)
Teaching and working in one鈥檚 second (L2) or additional language (L+) can be challenging. It can also be highly satisfying to share the joys and pleasures of the process of learning a new language. But sometimes, we wonder:
- 芦&苍产蝉辫;Is my French good enough? 禄
- 鈥淎m I saying it right? Is it better to speak LESS French to my students and ensure that it鈥檚 100% accurate, or increase the amount that they are exposed to even though it may not be correct?鈥�
- 鈥淒o other teachers judge me for the mistakes that I (might) make?鈥�
- 鈥淎lthough I say that I want to improve my own French, I would be mortified if someone corrected me in public!鈥�
- 鈥淒o others think that my low confidence in French (in front of adults) means I鈥檓 also a bad teacher?鈥�
This session is intended to open up an honest discussion on how we perceive our linguistic identity as French teachers as well as learn how our identities can be 鈥渘egotiated鈥�, resulting in a greater sense of confidence and legitimacy as French teachers. Monica will introduce the concept of 鈥淔our Ideal Dispositions of Bilingual People鈥�, as a way of setting an intention and a concrete direction for the FrancoFun Week and the rest of the year!
THURSDAY, July 4 PM | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
芦&苍产蝉辫; Habits of the Effective Bilingual Person: Guidelines for Retention and Motivation of Students 禄 (Core French)
Following the previous session on linguistic identity, this workshop will introduce some ideas for supporting students鈥� identity construction as beginning/intermediate language learners. The four ideal dispositions of bilingual people will be reexamined in the context of teaching French as a second language. We will have the opportunity to take concrete examples of FSL teaching and analyze them with an Identity-focus. Doing so may help students see themselves as legitimate users of French and nurture their enjoyment and desire to continue learning!