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Province helps prepare teachers to deliver language courses

Awards build capacity for delivery of language learning

Edmonton… Twenty-five current and future teachers will be awarded a total of $87,500 in scholarships and bursaries to enhance their language learning skills to benefit Alberta’s Kindergarten to Grade 12 students.

The funding will support 11 teachers who will spend this summer immersed in second-language and culture courses, as well as enhancing language teaching skills in languages such as Cree, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Ukrainian. Their knowledge will be applied to students when classes resume this fall. In addition, 14 students currently enrolled in an Alberta post-secondary teacher preparation program were awarded scholarships last spring, encouraging future second-language teachers in Alberta’s classrooms.

Post-secondary students eligible for a Languages in Teacher Education Scholarship must be Alberta residents registered full time in a recognized Alberta teacher preparation program in the province. Recipients are nominated by their post-secondary institution based on academic achievement and education program components taken to prepare to be a language teacher in Alberta after graduation.

To be eligible for a Language Teacher Bursary, applicants must hold a valid Alberta professional teaching certificate and must have been teaching in the province for at least three years. In addition, applicants must either have a specialization in languages or show evidence of having begun to study the language they will teach.

The Language Teacher Bursary and Languages in Teacher Education Scholarship are examples of the more than 50 Alberta scholarship programs available to Albertans. More information about these and other scholarships is available at www.alis.gov.ab.ca/scholarships.

Backgrounder

2008 Language Teacher Bursary Program Recipients – $52,500 awarded

Recipient

School jurisdictionHomePlace of studyLanguage studying
Julie CalliouSucker Creek First NationEnildaEdmontonCree
Brian ClarkCalgary School District No. 19Calgary SpainSpanish
Eva HollowayEdmonton School District No. 7EdmontonFranceFrench
Teodora MarshallCalgary Roman Catholic Separate School District No. 1Calgary ItalyItalian
Tyson MastelEdmonton Catholic Separate School District No. 7Edmonton FranceFrench
Amarnauth MohabirParkland School Division No. 70Edmonton JapanJapanese
Darlene NeumannCalgary School District No. 19CalgarySpainSpanish
Kelly ShyryNorthern Lights School Division No. 69BonnyvilleUkraineUkrainian
Shelley SpeerSturgeon School Division No. 24EdmontonSpainSpanish
Laura UsenikEdmonton Catholic Separate School District No. 7Edmonton FranceFrench
Laura WarnerRundle CollegeCalgary SpainSpanish

2008 Languages in Teacher Education Scholarship – $35,000 awarded

Recipient

HomePlace of studyProgramLanguage studying
Lindsay BorysSherwood ParkUniversity of AlbertaEducationUkrainian
Stephanie BrooksCalgaryUniversity of CalgaryEducationFrench
Ainsley de ChamplainBarrheadCampus St. JeanEducationFrench
Lina DilovCalgary University of CalgaryEducationFrench and Spanish
Volny DorceusMirror Canadian University CollegeEducationFrench
Julianne FielhaberCalgary University of LethbridgeEducationFrench
Marylou GammansCalgary University of CalgaryEducationFrench
Richard HendersonEdmontonConcordia University CollegeEducationFrench and Japanese
Conrad HooverEdmonton Kings University CollegeEducationFrench
Bethany HutchesonEdmontonUniversity of AlbertaEducationFrench and Spanish
Brigitte MarshallLeduc Campus St. JeanEducationFrench
Katherine MarshallSpruce Grove University of AlbertaEducationFrench
Cailin MundyCalgaryUniversity of LethbridgeEducationFrench
Melissa PerkinsEdmontonUniversity of Alberta Secondary EducationFrench and Spanish