French as a Second Language Specialist  EDUC 5738
Course Description

This course will focus on the leadership role in French instruction including the refinement of skills, knowledge, and teaching strategies. The leadership role in curriculum design, analysis of current programs (core, extended, and immersion) will be considered, including teaching materials, current literature, and principles of program and student evaluation.

Admission Requirements

1. A Certificate of Qualification indicating successful completion of Part 2; (It is not necessary to submit a hard copy as proof can be obtained from the Public Register of the Ontario College of Teachers.)

2. Evidence of at least two years (388 days) of successful teaching experience, of which at least one year (194 days) is in Ontario in the subject area, as certified by an appropriate supervisory officer. NOTE: Where candidates are teaching the subject, identified below, in an integrated format, supervisory officers may consider experience where a teacher can demonstrate that significant program and instruction modifications were explicitly planned, implemented and reviewed in the teacher's class: Computers in the Classroom, Dramatic Arts, ESL, FSL, Guidance, Music, Reading, Special Education, Visual Arts (OCT Memorandum; July 14, 2004). Teaching experience MUST BE COMPLETED prior to the first day of the course.

This course is taught in French.

Course Materials
ISBN Title
0838417051 Teaching Languages in Context
0070138877 Schaum's outline of French grammar. 4th ed. New York, McGraw-Hill. (Optional)

Materials can be ordered online at http://www.bookstore.uwo.ca/eSolution2/course.php?campus=AQ