March 2025 Newsletter

ISSN: 1488-8157                    March 2025 Recruitment We are currently recruiting for various positions! Candidates must be located in or near Canada’s National Capital Region. Resources The results of our CLIC national survey are finally here! Discover the results of our survey conducted among language service providers and key players in the CLIC program. These videos reveal the profiles of instructors and learners, their expectations, motivations and challenges, as well as their perspectives of the CLIC program. View the results here! Training Assessor Calibrations This winter, we calibrated over 20 CLBPT assessors in Alberta! Calibration is a great PD exercise for certified

December 2024 Newsletter

ISSN: 1488-8157                    Dccember 2024 Training Introduction to PBLA for new IRCC classroom instructors (supported training). Course timeline: January 29th to March 5th, 2025. LINC classroom teachers (part-time or full-time) are eligible for training but must have completed the CLB Bootcamp as a pre-requisite. Registrations are only accepted from program coordinators by emailing: [email protected] after the call for participants is received in early January. Webinars Check out our new collection of recorded webinars! English (CLB, PBLA, etc.) hosted on Tutela.ca French (NCLC, ELBP, etc.) hoested on CCLB’s website This fall was also a busy time for our NCLC team with three

September 2024 Newsletter

ISSN: 1488-8157 September 2024 Resources In collaboration with indigenous professionals, our team has launched two new resources that might interest ELBP practitioners teaching French as a second language and who would like to incorporate indigenous perspectives: Activities for teaching from indigenous perspectives and Accompanying guide (promoting indigenous perspectives). The National CLIC Curriculum Framework (French only) outlines the teaching-learning standards and instructional principles for French as a second language and the CLIC program for adults, from literacy to NCLC 8. The Framework includes 8 components as well as EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) principles that are integral to the Curriculum. Click