Facilitators: | Paula Fortier Marielle Hamon |
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Date: | October 26, 2017 |
Time: | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm MTN |
Cost: |
$75.00 |
Location: |
Edmonton (ERLC Office at Elmwood School) Room 17/18, 16325 - 83 Avenue Google Map |
Session Code: | 18-FR-057 |
Focus: | Leadership French Language (FI, FSL) Curriculum Implementation and Pedagogy |
Target Audience
Grades K-1 French Immersion Teachers, Literacy Leads, Consultants and Administrators
About this Learning Opportunity
Can a teacher use an inquiry-based approach successfully in a French Immersion early childhood classroom? Oui! Come learn more about our journey, the research we undertook and how we shifted our classrooms. The session we will begin where it all began for us, with Loris Malaguzzi’s (1920-1994) poem The Hundred Languages of Childhood (Reggio kids, 2014). This poem is the basis of the approach to education in Reggio Emilia, Italy. We will take some time to dissect the poem and how it links to our understanding of children and how they learn best. Then we will take some time to focus on the “third teacher” – the environment – and how important an inspiring learning space is for young children.
Afterwards, we will discuss emerging curriculum and how to respond to children’s interests while achieving curricular outcomes: setting out provocations/invitations, observation, documentation and how to deepen the learning throughout this process. We will have many inquiry examples to share and will be open to hearing the questions and concerns that French Immersion teachers may have while balancing teaching a second language using this new approach.
About the Facilitator
Paula Fortier has been a French Immersion educator for over 20 years with the Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools in Saskatoon. She was a Kindergarten teacher for 14 years and worked as the Early Learning Literacy Support Consultant before recently taking on the role of vice-principal with itinerant teaching duties in K- 2. Paula graduated from the University of Regina with a Bachelor of Education (Baccalauréat en éducation) and completed a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of Saskatchewan and is currently working on her Master’s in Administration. Her passion resides in children of all ages but she has an exceptional love and respect for early childhood and second language education.
Marielle Hamon has been French Immersion educator for over 10 years. Marielle is an early childhood educator (K-2) with Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools in Saskatoon. Marielle graduated from the University of Regina with a Bachelor of Education (Baccalauréat en éducation) and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in French Language. She has researched many different learning theories but has focused much of her studies and work on the approach taken in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Her passion is teaching French as a second language and/or Immersion to a variety of grade levels but she appreciates and strives toward being successful in early childhood French Immersion while creating a respectful learning environment that values all children’s creativity, natural curiosity, and wonder.