The techniques addressed in teacher training in the universities must be more adapted to the needs of the profession.
Our organization has created a portfolio based on the common framework of reference for languages which enables teachers who are learning French, but who will also be teaching it, to follow the framework themselves and have a portfolio with passports, a biography and so on. They therefore learn to manage all that so that they can then put it into practice in the classroom. We therefore have to develop these kinds of tools so that we can make self-evaluation, self-instruction and self-learning possible.
Researchers in the university faculties of education must be able to work with professors to determine what works and what does not. Then teaching resources and training must be established based on those best practices and applied in class. That has not been done in Canada for a long time, particularly in core French instruction, where it goes back a few years. Core French instruction practices must be reviewed and improved. Once again, these measures will benefit teachers. However, all the support for infrastructure, teaching resources and classes is necessary.