Zach Burnett, a Furman University senior from Frankfort, Ky., has been awarded an assistantship to teach English and American culture in primary and secondary schools in the Aix-Marseille region of France.<\/p>\n
The Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF) is a joint initiative of the French Ministry of Education, the\u00a0Centre international d’\u00e9tudes p\u00e9dagogiques<\/em>\u00a0(CIEP) and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.<\/p>\n The program’s goal is to strengthen English language instruction in French schools by establishing a native speaker presence, while also building American teaching skills and providing first-hand knowledge of French language and culture.<\/p>\n Burnett, an Economics and French major at Furman, studied abroad with the Furman Versailles program in fall 2012, and interned in the finance department of a French sailboat manufacturer in summer 2013. The internship was made possible through the Furman Advantage Program, which provides stipends for students to pursue career and research interests beyond the classroom.<\/p>\n Commenting on outcomes for the program, Burnett says, \u201cI would like my students to have more confidence in their abilities to understand and communicate in English . . . I hope to be a source of positive reinforcement and encouragement.\u201d He says he also aims to \u201cspark\u201d an interest in cultural exchange and a lasting appreciation for American and other cultures.<\/p>\n For now and through the summer, Burnett will continue his internship working in financial planning with Northwestern Mutual. His seven-month assistantship in Aix-Marseille begins in October. Following his time in France, Burnett says he looks forward to a career which combines his international experience, love of foreign language, and interest in economics and finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zach Burnett, a Furman University senior from Frankfort, Ky., has been awarded an assistantship to teach English and American culture in primary and secondary schools in the Aix-Marseille region of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":13384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-modern-languages-and-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}