Schedule 3:
Canada's Action Plan for Official Languages – Categories of Support and Areas of Intervention

MINORITY LANGUAGE EDUCATION

  • 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
EXPECTED RESULTS
SUPPORT CATEGORIES AREA OF INTERVENTION
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.
Promotion of research on minority language education and dissemination of knowledge
  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.

SECOND-LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION

  • By 2013, increase from 24% to 50% the proportion of secondary school graduates with a working knowledge of their second language
  • Increase access to post-secondary programs
EXPECTED RESULTS
SUPPORT CATEGORIES AREA OF INTERVENTION
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 experiences (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 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 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.


[Canada - New Brunswick Agreement on Complementary Projects 2005-06]