Welcome to the French program
Bonjour! My name is Madame Panetta and I am pleased to be your child’s French teacher! I have an honours degree in French Linguistics and have been teaching French as a second language for over 28 years. I am passionate about learning languages and speak English, French, Italian and some Spanish. Given my Italian background and experience as a second language learner, I am compassionate and have an understanding of how to learn a second language. My belief as an educator is that all of our students bring different skills and challenges and as educators we need to develop a relationship with these students and recognize those differences. We need to use our professional judgment to respond to them in our teaching by using differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all students based on their abilities and learning styles. Learning a new language can be difficult, no matter what language it is! I understand that some students may already speak more than one language at home, so i