Welcome TWINQ Teachers!

School District 27 has teamed up with Thompson Rivers University (TRU) to participate in the Teachers with International Teaching Qualifications (TWINQ) pilot project.   The background of this program stems from an impending teacher shortage throughout Canada.  Since TRU have approximately 250 international students in the M.Ed. in person program, many with teaching experience and credentials from their home country, TRU initiated this pilot project to bridge the connection between the M.Ed. Program and our schools.  As this is a pilot project, only twelve students have been accepted into the project; our district is hosting four of these twelve students.  Over the last three months these students were enrolled in a course titled Orientation to Canadian and BC Education which attempts to address the deficiencies outlined through the consultations with FISABC and our interior school districts.  Kristina Beaulne and Taryn Aumond were presenters during the course.  

Please welcome our visiting international teachers from left to right - Jiu Zhang, Shilpa Rodriques, Tridipkumar Macwan, and Anila Joy.  These students could be the future teacher employees in our BC schools.