Our award-winning and nationally accredited French Teacher Education major prepares graduates for K-12 teaching while offering a dynamic interdisciplinary lens for exploring the diverse cultural productions of the Francophone world: language, literature, the arts, politics, philosophy, and other fields of human inquiry and creative expression. Our students engage closely with faculty in small seminars and regularly study abroad for a year, semester, or summer in Angers or Grenoble (France), or Québec (Canada).
Regularly offered co-curricular activities including Pi Delta Phi (the French Honor Society), conversation tables, guest lectures, service learning, and a film series offer opportunities to hone your French outside the classroom.
Graduates in French Teacher Education demonstrate ACTFL-rated Advanced-Low language or higher proficiency and intercultural competencies, as well as the knowledge and experience necessary to become an effective educator.
French Teacher Education majors acquire skill sets that prepare them for K-12 classroom teaching. Upon successful completion of their degree, graduates are certified to teach K-12 French in Illinois, as well as 32 states with reciprocity agreements. Career outlook for graduates remains promising. In fact, school principals around the state regularly contact our department in search of qualified job candidates.
The French Teacher Education program at Illinois State University prepares candidates to be highly qualified teachers and to be able to use their linguistic and intercultural competencies in any job that they may have.
Approximately 100,000 people in this country work in the field of foreign language teaching. Over two-thirds teach in Jr. & Sr. High Schools, and the rest in colleges and universities, elementary schools and commercial and government- operated language schools with the greatest number teaching Spanish.In addition, a substantial number teach English to those who speak other languages as their native tongue. The teaching of English to speakers of other languages also offers expanding opportunities for employment abroad in government, academic & volunteer programs.
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Olanna Pullen | 223 Bone Student Center | olpulle@ilstu.edu | (309) 438-2200 |
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Nancy Ferrill | nferrill@ilstu.edu | (309) 438-7960 | Student Teacher Supervisor |
Applying by our priority deadline is encouraged for best consideration for your academic program and for scholarships. Start your application today!
Applying by our priority deadline is encouraged for best consideration for your academic program and for scholarships. Start your application today!
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2.96 - 3.67
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Laura Edwards | Stevenson Hall 231B | lcedwar@ilstu.edu | (309) 438-3279 |
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2.96 - 3.67
Applications are always accepted.
Current students can use the Apply to Your Program tool on My.IllinoisState.edu.
Name | Office | Phone | |
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Laura Edwards | Stevenson Hall 231B | lcedwar@ilstu.edu | (309) 438-3279 |