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northwest territories• Full-time secretary-librarians were hired, in order to improveservices to the community and to parents. These hires have hada beneficial impact on library borrowing and on the availabilityof library resources.• The Department of Education, Culture and Employmentoffered professional training sessions and workshops tofrancophone teachers on topics such as literacy, numeracy,and the humanities, in order to enrich the learning environmentof minority-language students.HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTSIN SECOND-LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONNorthwest Territories’ achievements in second-language instruction,between 2005–06 and 2008–09, included the following outcomessupported by federal–territorial funding arrangements:• The department organized training sessions for core-Frenchteachers on the Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) methodology,a gesture-based approach to learning languages. Almost all coreFrench teachers took this training, and a number of school boardshave since implemented this method in the classroom.• The number of school boards offering French immersionprograms increased from 3 in 2005–06 to 4 in 2008–09, andenrolment in these programs increased from 646 to 664 overthe same time period.• In two school boards, a second-language consultant was hiredto support teachers in their efforts to meet the needs of students.• Over the last three years of the agreement, one NWT school boardoffered an intensive French course in Grade 6. This initiative wasvery successful.30Pan-Canadian Report on Official Languages in Education 2005–06 to 2008–09 HIGHLIGHTS