Services and programs in Canada

Here is a list of the major educational outreach programs carried out in Canada by the Office of Education within the broader framework of the Ministry of Education of Spain’s foreign education policies:

• Summer courses for American teachers and education administrators. There are two kinds of courses: Three week courses on various education areas such as language, culture, methodology or fine arts and two-summer Masters. They are organized by prestigious Spanish Universities and targeted to K-12 teachers, education administrators and Community College teachers.

• Visiting Teachers in Canada. This program offers Canadian school districts the opportunity to recruit foreign language and bilingual teachers from Spain to teach at elementary, middle and high school levels. At the same time it provides students, parents and educators with the opportunity to work with professionals who are native speakers of the target language, bringing a valuable international perspective to Canadian classrooms.

• Spanish Language Assistants in Canada: Through the Language Assistant program, young Spanish graduates are placed in Elementary, Middle, and High Schools or in Spanish Resource Centers at Universities in the United States and Canada in order to support the teaching of Spanish.
• International Spanish Academies (ISA). The International Spanish Academies are part of a network of strongly language committed schools in the U.S. and Canada that implement Spanish immersion programs.
• Teacher professional development. It is one of the most important initiatives of the Education Office. It is designed for teachers, whether they are citizens from Spain, the United States or Canada. Numerous activities are organized throughout the year, either in person or online, always free of charge, and entrusted to experts from the university sphere or to highly qualified and experienced teachers.