Each year through the CIEP ( Centre International d'Etudes Pédagogiques) France offers around 6,500 assistantships to candidates from countries where English, Spanish, German, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian are spoken. The assistants give conversation classes in their native language to small groups of primary and/or secondary students, provide classroom support for teachers of foreign languages, and tell students about their own country. About 1500 assistantships are offered to citizens of the United States each year. Because so many graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin have served as assistants in the past four years, our proposal to create this site received the support of the French Embassy.

However, this site is only a supplement to the main application process. For downloadable applications and other information and documents, please go to:

www.frenchculture.org/education/support/assistant/index.html

Click on one of the links below to view documentation on the application process:

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