Schedule 3 - Categories of Support and Areas of Intervention 2005-06 to 2008-09

Table of Contents

• 1. Minority Language Education
• 2. Second Official Language Instruction

1. Minority Language Education

Expected Results

• By 2013, increase to 80% the proportion of eligible students enrolled in Francophone schools in minority communities
• Provide quality education that is comparable to that of the majority

Promotion of access and integration

1. Develop strategies to recruit students and to prepare them for school;
   
2. Language upgrading programs (in English and French);
   
3. Strategies to welcome children of immigrants;
   
4. Drop-out prevention / incentives to continue education in French, especially in the transition from primary to secondary school.

Program quality and cultural enrichment of school environment

1. Develop and implement programs / approaches / adapted teaching resources;
   
2. Cultural enrichment initiatives / rooting the school in the community (school-community centres, etc.);
   
3. Secondary school revitalization initiatives;
   
4. Use new communication technologies;
   
5. Improve French as a second language programs in Quebec.

Teachers and education support services

1. Assistance in recruiting teachers and support services specialists;
   
2. Initial / continuous training initiatives in minority language education and support services;
   
3. Integrate new communication technologies into teaching practices, including those to compensate for a shortage of teachers.

Improvement of access to post-secondary education

1. Develop new programs;
   
2. Initiative to facilitate the transition from secondary to post-secondary schools;
   
3. Distance education and inter-institutional program sharing;
   
4. Create new institutional infrastructures.

Improvement of access to post-secondary education

1. Share information on best practices;
   
2. Gather and disseminate knowledge on minority language education;
   
3. Strategies and methods for francization, retention and identity development;
   
4. Improve methods for measuring results and for reporting to Canadians.

2. Second Official Language Instruction

Expected Results

• By 2013, increase from 24% to 50% the proportion of secondary school graduates with a working knowledge of their second official language
• Increase access to post-secondary programs

Improve core English and French programs

1. Improve programs;
   
2. Enhance their teaching capacity;
   
3. Modernize teaching methods, use new technologies and enhance the quality of teaching resources;
   
4. Recruit new students and retain those already enrolled;
   
5. Recognize and value learning.

Revitalize immersion programs

1. Increase the number of students;
   
2. Reverse the drop-out trend at the secondary level;
   
3. Authentic communication expriences (cultural enrichment, exchanges, etc.);
   
4. Recognize and value learning.

Teachers and education support services

1. Assistance in recruiting teachers;
   
2. Improve the language skills of current and future teachers;
   
3. Encourage students in education to continue their studies in their second official language;
   
4. Use new technologies to compensate for the shortage of teachers.

Continuation of learning at the post-secondary level

1. Incentives to continue learning the second official language at the post-secondary level;
   
2. Offer new programs;
   
3. Create support mechanisms for students;
4. Recognize and value learning.

Promotion of research on the teaching of English and French as a second language

1. Develop instruments to measure results;
   
2. Share information on best practices;
3. Gather and disseminate knowledge on the teaching of English and French as second languages;
   
4. Improve methods for measuring results and for reporting to Canadians.

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