Mentoring: Post-Secondary

Strategies

• Utilize every opportunity to share our profession
  • Tell them how much you love your job
  • Ask them “Have you thought about K-12 teaching?”
  • Explain the steps to becoming a K-12 teacher
    • undergraduate
    • graduate
  • Talk, talk, talk about the rewards of being a K-12 French teacher
  • Display testimonials from former students who are K-12 French teachers
  • Include teaching K-12 French at Career Fair

• Utilize French Department website to feature French + K-12 Licensure
  • Personal success stories
  • Career planning

• Offer “teaching” opportunities
  • service learning
    • local immigrant/refugee support
    • resources
      • Étudiants sans frontières, Vol. 1Integrating Service-Learning & Volunteer Opportunities Vol. II
  • internships in K-12 schools
    • Extra-curricular
    • Course requirement
  • tutoring on campus
  • cultural events for high school students

• Promote the Teaching Assistants Program in France (TAPIF)
  • Overview of Program
  • Frequently Asked Questions

• Participate actively in Freshman Advising
  • four year planning for French
    • major
    • minor
    • certificate
    • K-12 licensure
  • addition of French endorsement to licensure in other subjects
  • prospect of French MAT

• Include K-12 Teaching French at Career Fair events