Finance and Statistics
French Language Education Review — French Immersion Program
In September 2014, the BEF introduced the French Language Education Review (Review) to ascertain to what extent school divisions fully implement a French Immersion Program that allows all students to develop their ability to communicate in French effectively with fluency, accuracy and confidence, while developing their plurilingual identity.
The French Language Education Review is based upon the renewed vision of the French Immersion Program in Manitoba which is to ensure that students become proud, engaged, confident, plurilingual global citizens.
To determine the level of success in full implementation of the French Immersion Program in Manitoba, data is collected by surveying French Immersion schools in four key areas:
- Creating a French Immersion Setting
- Validation of Students' Linguistic and Educational Experience
- Educational Staff and Professional Learning
- Student Enrolment Trends
Successful implementation in turn impacts student success. For the purposes of this Review, student success is determined by how successfully students achieve the outcomes of the Program according the data collected from the following five questions asked to schools:
- Does the Immersion program allow students, including students with special needs, to achieve an appropriate level of linguistic competency in both French and English?
- Are students proud of their linguistic competencies and do they have confidence in their ability to speak French in various public settings?
- Are students aware of their own cultural identity and are they open to other languages and cultures?
- Do students have the confidence and the interest to participate in activities in the Francophone community, here and elsewhere?
- Do students value the learning of languages as a key to global citizenship? Do they see themselves as lifelong language learners?
| Year CA/MB Agreement |
Provincial Data Collection | Documents and Reports | Follow-up |
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Year 1 |
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Orientation sessions with the 22 school divisions offering French Immersion |
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Year 2 |
Data collection for the 2013-2014 school year
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Provincial meeting
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Year 3 |
No data collected for the 2014-2015 school year |
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Year 4 |
Data collection for the 2015-2016 school year
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Year 5 End of agreement |
Data collection for the 2016-2017 school year
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2018-2019 Next agreement |
Data collection for the 2017-2018 school year
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Other Resources
Smart Goal Setting and Planning
SMART Goal Setting – Explanation
[English Version (
24 KB)] [French Version ( 49 KB)]
SMART Goal Setting and Planning – Template
[English Version ( 24 KB)] [French Version ( 49 KB)]
Examples of SMART Goals with Action Plan
- Example # 1 (
128 KB) – Increase the number of high school French Immersion credits offered in French to a minimum of 14 credits by the 2017-2018 school year.
French Version ( 126 KB) - Example # 2 ( 136 KB) – Increase the exposure and usage of the French language during non-instructional time to OFTEN in all areas of the school by the end of the 2017-2018 school year.
French Version ( 133 KB) - Example # 3 ( 135 KB) – Increase the percentage of Grade 4 students meeting provincial expectations in Lecture (reading in French) to at least 90% by the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year.
French Version ( 132 KB)
Data Collection and Analysis
Worksheet ( 24 KB) – Worksheet for Data Analysis and Reflection of the French Immersion Program
Worksheet ( 27 KB) – Worksheet - Data Collection for Section 2 – Validation of student’s linguistic and educational experience
