December 2024 Newsletter

Dec 01, 2024 | Category : Newsletter | ISSN: 1488-8157

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: PBLA@language.ca 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.)

hosted on CCLB’s website
This fall was also a busy time for our NCLC team with three new webinar (in French only):

Practical workshop on CNCL resources

Artificial intelligence in ELBP

Learning styles: belief or evidence?
As part of the development of the CLIC National Curriculum projects, two webinars will be presented between February and March 2025. One will be about the CLIC Curriculum Guidelines, and the other will focus on the CLIC Online Curriculum (Courseware). Participants will learn more about the new resources available for preparing lessons and teaching the CLIC program.
Stay tuned! An email will be sent to CLIC instructors to provide the exact dates and how to participate.

Conferences

CESBA, Toronto, ON – December 4 and 5, 2024.
  • Attendee: ESL/LINC Sector Day.
  • Co-Presenter with Achēv: National LINC & CLIC Curriculum
Projects: Updated Teaching and Learning Resources.
For the Love of Literacy 2025, virtual, January 25, 2025.
Presenter: Orientation to CCLB Literacy Tools, Task Analysis and Resource Alignment.

Community News

The research report “Assigning or removing the L for literacy designation” is now available on our website: https://web.language.ca/research-listing-page/assigning-or-removing-the-l-for-literacy-designation/

Sector News

On October 24, 2024, The Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced the 2025–2027 Immigration Levels Plan which reduces targets compared to the previous year’s plan. CCLB continues to track immigration levels and to consider how this may impact newcomer language instruction.

On November 4, 2024, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada published the 2024 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration. Among other pertinent information regarding language, the report states that “IRCC is looking at ways to align federal economic immigration requirements with licensure processes where possible by advancing the designation, for immigration purposes, of certain domain-specific language tests used by regulators in key sectors, starting with specialized languages tests used for nurses and physicians.” CCLB continues to monitor IRCC policy changes around language testing and potential employment applications.