Students at Glendon and TFS expand learning capacity through outdoor classrooms
York University’s Glendon College and the Toronto French School (TFS) have partnered to create a full-year, professional work placement course. The partnership builds on York’s commitment to expand experiential education across all campuses.
The course pairs a Glendon student with a TFS faculty member, who will work together in an outdoor classroom.
This initiative is also part of Projet FranCOnnexion, a Canadian Heritage and provincial government-supported effort whose goal is to amplify experiential learning and francophone education along Toronto’s Bayview corridor.
Following a successful pilot launch in September 2022, the project currently provides 18 Glendon students with hands-on experience in an outdoor classroom setting that spotlights French education, discussions about the local ecosystem and the development of leadership and communication skills.