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PSC in Teaching French Immersion

The Professional Specialization Certificate In Teaching French Immersion (PSC in TFI) is a 6.0 unit credit program for in-service and pre-service teachers interested in teaching French immersion It is administered by the University of Victoria’s Continuing Studies in Education, in cooperation with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education, and the Department of French.

In this specialized environment, taught exclusively in French, you’ll acquire the unique skills, methodological knowledge and French language fluency to be highly effective in teaching French immersion.

Objective

The Professional Specialization Certificate in Teaching French Immersion (PSC in TFI) will:

• provide a rigorous, accredited training program and certificate to native speakers of French and to teachers who aspire to be native-like speakers of French, to enable them to advance their theoretical knowledge and practical skills in teaching in the French Immersion context
• provide a high degree of both written and oral proficiency to French Immersion teachers, heighten their awareness and knowledge of the necessity to continue to address their own language limitations and provide them with the linguistic, cultural and attitudinal tools to move ahead in their profession
• provide language assessment and career preparation for practicing teachers interested in teaching in Immersion

Format

Where do the courses take place?

The certificate consists of four courses. Two are delivered online during the Winter session (Fall and Spring terms), and two take place in the Summer at the University of Victoria campus.

Completion Requirements

You’ll need a pre-admission fluency (oral and written) assessment. The assessment is free of charge and offered twice a year on campus and by distance (May and November). Please see the attached Assessment Information and Evaluation Grid for more information, or contact our office for more information: lmcrae@uvic.ca

You may start the program with Modern French, or Organization and Instruction in French Immersion, or Principles of Teaching French Immersion. Designs for Learning cannot be taken before Organization and Instruction has been completed.

Course Descriptions

Modern French (FRAN475) on campus with online component, Summer Session

Fluency component - Detailed study of contemporary French, with particular attention to aspects of the language useful to immersion teachers.

And three Methodology courses:

Organization and Instruction in French Immersion (EDCI476), on campus, Summer Session

An examination of current models for the organization and instruction of French Immersion students at the elementary and secondary level. Participants will define and to articulate those critical factors that ensure lessons and units of study will enable students to learn language as well as concepts/skills.

Assessment will include self-evaluation in reference to criteria and based on the content of personal journals, and three class presentations demonstrating appropriate delivery of instruction (including goals, assessment, strategies and accuracy of French).

Principles of Teaching French Immersion (EDCI475), ONLINE, January to April

Develop a solid grounding in the basic curricula and evaluation as required of the French Immersion program and an understanding of the similarities and differences between teaching in Immersion and in the English program. Emphasis is on how students develop literacy and numeracy in French Immersion while mastering the skills and concepts laid out in all subject areas as required by the BC curriculum.

Participants will be assessed on their ability to demonstrate the development of lessons that simultaneously achieve language and content/concept goals as well as on their ability to critique sample lessons and units of study suggesting, when necessary, modifications that would be required in an Immersion classroom.

Designs for Learning (in French Immersion) (EDCI477), ONLINE, September to December

This course focuses on all aspects of assessment and evaluation within the context of Immersion’s language and content methodology.

Pre-requisite: Organization and Instruction in French Immersion

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