ILEA’s next meeting will be hosted by the The York Region School Board. This meeting will be held at Dr. Bette Stephenson Centre for Learning at 36 Regatta Ave in Richmond Hill L4E 4R1 (click to see the area map). The meeting will be start at 10:00 a.m. and end by 2:30 p.m. Lunch will be [...]
Laura Ambrosio, representative of institutional member University of Ottawa, updated ILEA institutional reps on her research projects at the Winter Forum that took place in Ottawa in February of 2012. Laura has been doing a research project on the current status and needs of IL instructors in Ontario (and hopefully will spread this onwars throughout [...]
We are long overdue for the next meeting of the Language Alliance! If you were not there last time, the Language Alliance is a subcommittee and networking group formed by ILEA Ontario (www.ilea.ca). The second meeting of the Language Alliance meeting will be on: Wednesday March 21, 2012 at 4:15 pm. at the Albert Education Centre (440 [...]
ILEA’s Executive will be presenting this weekend in Edmonton for IHLA (International and Heritage Languages Association – Northern Alberta). Maria and Constantine will be presenting the workshop: It’s in the Task! that focuses on the creation of effective performance-based tasks for communicative language classrooms. The program flyer is attached for information on this ILEA workshop. [...]
This is a follow up message for a question that came up recently at an ILEA Institutional Forum meeting. The Ministry of Education is having a feedback session on the revised IL-Secondary Curriculum Guidelines in Toronto on March 8th – this is with invitation only. Subject associations such as ILEA along with school boards are being asked to provide feedback [...]
Here are some recent articles in the news related to language education that you are sure to enjoy! Thanks to Mike Gretton of SAHLA in Calgary who forwarded these interesting items! Children show gift for language – information on the growth of bilingual/immersion programs in Alberta where parents can select immersion programs in French or [...]
An article from the Vancouver Sun: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Editorial+February+International+Mother+Language/6182293/story.html#ixzz1n37pU1Aj
ILEA Institutional Members Ottawa Meeting AGENDA IL Elementary and Secondary Curriculum Documents (pending release from the Ministry of Education) Promotional Package on the Benefits of Language Report on First Language Assessment Project for Adult Learners Report from the OTF Forum for Associations Task Project using the CEFR Financial Literacy Project Using the ILEA Website for [...]
The Ministry of Education provided ILEA with a grant to take the principles of financial literacy and create activities for the language classroom based on those principles. Unit plans have been created along with sample activity descriptions and rubrics for culminating tasks. Activity description handouts have also been translated/interpreted into French, Spanish, German, Arabic and Simplified Mandarin. These are available here [...]
ILEA is the ONTARIO voice on the CLA (Canadian Languages Association) and has been communicating with Senator Mobina Jaffer on developing a multilingual vision for Canada. We hope to provide you more information on this initiative in 2012. In the meanwhile, have a look at the document that is the focus of our work and you will [...]
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