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I teach two sections of combined fourth and fifth grade. At my school, fourth and fifth graders receive 40% of their instruction in French and 60% in English. The earlier grades receive more instruction in French and less in English.

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Cycle 1: My school is very French.  It is a beautiful campus,  with mostly very wealthy. Preschool lead teachers are all French, all day.  They may repeat directions in English for the benefit of some students but it is French all day.  I see each age level for 1- 1.5 hours per week + 30 additional minutes of co-teaching for english and they have Spanish instruction for 1 hour a well as well.   

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Cycle 1: My school is very French.  It is a beautiful campus,  with mostly very wealthy. Preschool lead teachers are all French, all day.  They may repeat directions in English for the benefit of some students but it is French all day.  I see each age level for 1- 1.5 hours per week + 30 additional minutes of co-teaching for english and they have Spanish instruction for 1 hour a well as well.   

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Most children understand everything I say 

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Most children understand everything I say 

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I really like teaching classes with combined grades. While they exist in the U.S. (I went to a school with combined grade classes), I have heard they are more common in France.

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The Ecole's approach is 50/50 in English and French. It used to be more French than English instruction. It has recently changed to the 50/50 model. 87% of our students have at least one Francophone parent. Academically, the school is starting to feel more American. Culturally, it remains very French because of our population. We are cycle 2 2nd grade teachers.  

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The Ecole's approach is 50/50 in English and French. It used to be more French than English instruction. It has recently changed to the 50/50 model. 87% of our students have at least one Francophone parent. Academically, the school is starting to feel more American. Culturally, it remains very French because of our population. We are cycle 2 2nd grade teachers.  

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Communication with Co-teachers who primarily speak French 

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Communication with Co-teachers who primarily speak French 

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The preschool (maternelle) at ISB is very French-focused. French instruction is taught 80% of the time and English is taught 20% of the time. This means that the English teacher is typically assigned 2-3 classes, and they visit the French teacher's room rather than have a classroom of their own. We serve a relatively diverse multilingual/multicultural community.

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I teach two first grade classes on a week A, week B schedule where I see the kids every other day. I am uncertain of the percentages but our school is bilingual in both English and French. It is very French, lots of French families and teachers. My direct bosses are French.

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I teach English to the 2-year-old class (TPS) and to one section of 3-year-olds (PS). There is about 75% French and 25% English instruction at this level. The upper elementary grades receive 50% of instruction in English and 50% of instruction in French.

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limited time per class, per age group.  Figuring out a balance between required academics and silly fun in a 30 minute block 

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limited time per class, per age group.  Figuring out a balance between required academics and silly fun in a 30 minute block 

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I would say it is 50% English and 50% French as students receive instruction in each language every other day and some specials are in French and some in English. Students speak both languages outside the classroom and with their peers.

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understanding French teaching methods and standards and how the differ than American (that iI am used to for the past 12 years) 

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understanding French teaching methods and standards and how the differ than American (that iI am used to for the past 12 years) 

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French Immersion School Washington: 30% English/70% French

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French Immersion School Washington: 30% English/70% French

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When I taught at Awty Int'l Houston, we were 50/50 English/French.

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I enjoy that the dual language model requires me to collaborate with my coteachers.

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My school is primarily french. It is very multicultural and diverse. Our students primarily learn in French, but do attend to other English and Spanish courses. This year we have started co-teaching, where the course gets divided 50/50 in French and English, however, that happens only once a week.

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The Ecole is a small school in the heart of New York City.  About 280 students from nursery to 8 th grade.  The curriculum is 50/50(since the past 2 years- prior was 60 /37 . We are now a feeder school for an American High School.

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I teach Kindergarten and they see me 4 times a week for about 1-1.5 hours a day. We do co-teaching bilingual morning meetings as well as bilingual sessions related to our themes once a week. Students in K are also getting Spanish twice a week for 30 minutes.

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Being in an environment where I get to use/practice my French everyday is wonderful. I studied French in undergrad so I'm grateful I get to practice it. I also like working with colleagues who are familiar with studying/living abroad, as I studied abroad myself in college.

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Good relationship and collaboration with the French K teachers

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Students are fully immersed in both languages and there is a strong French culture at our school while the students are also in the heart of NYC.

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For me, this often outweighs some of the struggles. I deeply value multilingualism

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I am expected to align what I teach with my French coteachers, but we can't actually coteach together at the same time, and that makes it difficult.

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Our school is 70% French instruction and 30% English instruction. Culturally it is very French.

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I grew up going to an immersion school in the Boston area - which has helped a lot with my French! I find that I can leverage this strength to form strong relationships with French colleagues (particularly my French binome).

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 The families at The Ecole, although French, most plan to stay in the states. Many of the families plan to stay in the states, and also have an interest in sending their children to American high schools, etc. Parents tend to communicate with English teachers at the school about things related to being in the United States, specifically New York. 

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 The families at The Ecole, although French, most plan to stay in the states. Many of the families plan to stay in the states, and also have an interest in sending their children to American high schools, etc. Parents tend to communicate with English teachers at the school about things related to being in the United States, specifically New York. 

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The French and English curriculum does not fully align so it does not always easily complement each other.

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not having a curriculum throughout the whole school that is aligned and has a progression from preK to 8th

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Hard to only see my students 2x or 3x a week rather than every day.

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One struggle I have is communicating with my co-teacher or missing some information due to my inability to fluently speak French.

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Can take longer than their monolingual peers to develop sophisticated language skills. Having to work also with the US Common Core system is silly since in the early years GS is pre reading, and in the US system we expect reading at the end of Kindergarten.

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To provide clarity on a subject where a student might be struggling. We have found that sometimes students tend to focus more on translating a concept from French to English, instead of trying to learn and understand it.

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It is a relief to know that while my emergent bilingual students are learning English, they won't fall behind academically, because they still have many of their classes in their first language.

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Differences in the approach to teaching/management styles in the classrooms. Alignment with French curriculum (how to fit in the entire English curriculum into just 50% of the time, when the French teachers are also using the curriculum given to them by the French government.) 

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Differences in the approach to teaching/management styles in the classrooms. Alignment with French curriculum (how to fit in the entire English curriculum into just 50% of the time, when the French teachers are also using the curriculum given to them by the French government.) 

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The preschool is very French-focused, so I feel like English is not taken as seriously as the French program. This is due in part to there not being a streamlined scope and sequence English curriculum at the Maternelle level. It can be difficult to co-teach as well with the cultural/pedagogical differences between the French and American curriculum. As a first-year teacher (though 4th year at the school), I find it hard to take risks when I feel like I have to be aligned with what the French teachers are doing.

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Since we only see students 3 times per week, the rhythm is interrupted. 

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Since we only see students 3 times per week, the rhythm is interrupted. 

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Hard to work on projects in co-teaching when we only see each other once a week.

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to cover all of the ground we want to cover. Based on time, English instruction is treated as a specialist position, and this is very difficult as a practioner.

In other language schools I have had my own classroom. We have building limitations at our current school. I don't feel like teaching in a French classroom is faithful to a total immersion environment, but I am willing to be flexible.

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No math curriculum/limited math resources in English (but expected to teach some math)

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visiting other classrooms and not having my own classroom.  I work with 7 classrooms, 7 "lead French teachers" and  7 assistants and feel like i'm over stepping sometimes 

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visiting other classrooms and not having my own classroom.  I work with 7 classrooms, 7 "lead French teachers" and  7 assistants and feel like i'm over stepping sometimes 

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How do you start a conversation about curriculum alignment between English and French in subjects like science and math?

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A streamlined English curriculum, English curriculum resources specifically for English teachers at international/bilingual schools. 

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A streamlined English curriculum, English curriculum resources specifically for English teachers at international/bilingual schools. 

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How to reconcile the differences in expectations for 1st grade especially with reading 

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How to reconcile the differences in expectations for 1st grade especially with reading 

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Phonics! Does anyone have a curriculum that they feel good about using in the limited time that we have to teach English??

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Phonics! Does anyone have a curriculum that they feel good about using in the limited time that we have to teach English??

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Resources for curriculum mapping that make sense in both English and French and help us to make sure the curriculum is coherent?

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Resources for curriculum mapping that make sense in both English and French and help us to make sure the curriculum is coherent?

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Which coteaching models have worked well in settings similar to mine?

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Suggestions for math curriculums, translated in English and French, that have worked well for some?

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Anglophone Teacher Sessions - Google Jamboard

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podcast from The Daily - highly recommend

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podcast from The Daily - highly recommend

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"This is seen as protecting liberty, not imposing religious discrimination"-France's secularism law

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how to answer the parent question "My child is learning 2 or 3 languages...will this put them behind?" or questions similar 

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how to answer the parent question "My child is learning 2 or 3 languages...will this put them behind?" or questions similar 

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How to communicate to parents about the necc. curricular decisions we have to make due to our limited time

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How to communicate to parents about the necc. curricular decisions we have to make due to our limited time

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Anglophone Teacher Sessions - Google Jamboard