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ontario• The strategy Destination Réussite, volet amélioration des écoles[destination success, school improvement component],designed to maximize the chances for success of every studentfrom Grade 7 to Grade 12, made it possible to help 34 secondaryschools to implement, with their students, strategies of retention,teaching, and follow-up in order to increase the rate of academicsuccess and diploma attainment. The total number of graduatesfrom Ontario’s French-language schools increased from 4,509 in2005–06 to 4,979 in 2007–08.• SOS DEVOIRS, a service for helping students from Grade 1 toGrade 12 with their homework in all subjects of the Ontariocurriculum, offered its services to some 108,823 francophonestudents. The number of calls for on-line files climbed to 10,712,065, an increase of 66 per cent compared to the previous year.• Through recruitment efforts, Ontario’s French-languagecommunity colleges and bilingual universities increased thenumber of French-language students registered from 15,398in 2004–05 to 16,733 in 2008–09.HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTSIN SECOND-LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONOntario’s achievements in second-language instruction, between2005–06 and 2008–09, included the following outcomes supportedby federal–provincial funding arrangements:• In order to improve classroom support and student achievement,Ontario supported the hiring of French-as-a-second-language (FSL)consultants as well as literacy coaches and special assignmentteachers in most school boards. These FSL specialists areresponsible for providing support to classroom teachers; acquiringand purchasing literacy, oral language, and technology resources;and coordinating and/or delivering teacher training activities.• In 2008–09, 93 per cent of English-language school boardsprovided professional development opportunities to FSL teachers,including training on balanced literacy programs, effective literacyor differentiated instructional strategies, mentoring programs,demonstration classrooms, and on-line professional learningcommunities.42Pan-Canadian Report on Official Languages in Education 2005–06 to 2008–09 HIGHLIGHTS
• In the 2008–09 school year, a total of 59 new extended Frenchand French immersion classes were established, and over 22 newextended and immersion classes were established in existing sites.• To achieve the goal of providing more accessible and better qualityteaching materials to students, Ontario focused support on thedevelopment and acquisition of student- literacy/levelled-readingresources that align with English materials, and on the use ofreading assessment tools.ontario• 2008–09 saw Glendon College welcome a second cohort of studentsinto its school of public and international affairs. The two-yearprogram offered by the school is the first bilingual program in thisdiscipline in Canada. Moreover, in this same year, Glendon had64 students in its bachelor’s in education program for teachersof French immersion, core French, and enriched French at theprimary/middle level.To learn more about Ontario’s achievementsin official languages in education, please consult thePan-Canadian Report on Official Languages in Education2005–06 to 2008–09 on-line at www.cmec.ca.Pan-Canadian Report on Official Languages in Education 2005–06 to 2008–09 HIGHLIGHTS 43
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