Education

#MENE2602909ARegional Language Teaching Programs for French Middle and High Schools

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This order sets new common and optional teaching programs for regional living languages in middle schools and general and technological high schools in France. It affects schools, teachers, curriculum planners, students, and families involved in regional language education. The rollout is phased in by grade level from the 2026-2027 school year through 2028-2029. It also removes older language-program provisions for certain middle school cycles and repeals the 2019 program for general and technological high school language teaching.

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Key Changes

  • Sets new common and optional curricula for regional living languages in middle school and general and technological high school
  • Repeals or removes older language teaching provisions from previous curriculum orders
  • Introduces the new programs in phases from the 2026-2027 school year to the 2028-2029 school year

Obligations

What this law requires

medium

Apply the new common and optional regional living language teaching programs, as set in the annexes to the order, for sixth grade, fifth grade, and second-year general and technological high school classes starting in the 2026-2027 school year.

middle schoolsgeneral and technological high schoolscurriculum plannersregional language teachers
Start of the 2026-2027 school year
operational
medium

Apply the new common and optional regional living language teaching programs for fourth grade and first-year general and technological high school classes starting in the 2027-2028 school year.

middle schoolsgeneral and technological high schoolscurriculum plannersregional language teachers
Start of the 2027-2028 school year
operational
medium

Apply the new common and optional regional living language teaching programs for third grade and final-year general and technological high school classes starting in the 2028-2029 school year.

middle schoolsgeneral and technological high schoolscurriculum plannersregional language teachers
Start of the 2028-2029 school year
operational
medium

Stop applying the language-teaching provisions of Annex 2 of the 9 November 2015 order for sixth grade and Annex 3 of that order for the deepening cycle, because those provisions are removed by this order.

middle schoolscurriculum plannersregional language teachers
From the applicable rollout dates for the affected classes
operational
medium

Stop applying the 17 January 2019 order on common and optional living language programs for second, first, and final-year general and technological high school classes, because it is repealed by this order.

general and technological high schoolscurriculum plannerslanguage teachers
From the applicable rollout dates for the affected high school classes
operational

Affected Parties

Middle schools and general and technological high schoolsRegional language teachers+2 more…

Tags

education,regional languages,curriculum