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The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., is having a cocktail reception for alumni of the Teaching Assistant Program in France on Thursday, March 10, 2011, from 6pm to 8pm. This event is an opportunity to meet and mingle with other former teaching assistants living in the Washington, D.C. area. Organized with the support of the Embassy's Regional Department of Economic Affairs, the reception will also be a chance to network with representatives from a number of French and French-oriented businesses and organizations operating in the U.S. and overseas.

For more information, please see the Alumni of the Teaching Assistant Program in France - USA Facebook group.

If you are currently an assistant in France and you would like to renew for a second year, the form is available online. You cannot change académies, but you can request to change school(s) and/or the city. You will need to get it signed by the chef d'établissement before sending it to the rectorat or CIEP. The deadline is March 14, 2011.

Renewal Form 2011-12 (PDF)

Even though the form says that you will receive an e-mail in June, do not count on this. Many times assistants do not hear anything concrete until September or even October because new assistants have priority over renewing assistants, and so the rectorat must wait until a new assistant resigns before offering the position to a renewing assistant.

The application for the American program is due tomorrow, January 1, 2011!

If you're having trouble with the online application, call or e-mail Carolyn Collins at the French Embassy in DC. Also check out the TAPIF page on Facebook - a lot of questions have been answered there.

Good luck!

Applications for the assistant program for all the Anglophone countries become available in October.

The American program made their application available as of October 11 and it is completely online: www.tapif.org The deadline is January 1, 2011.

For other countries, a list of links to the various French embassy sites as well as the number of positions available for each country can be found here:

English Language Teaching Assistantship in France for 2011-2012 School Year

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The official American program has updated their website with information for prospective, current and former English assistants in France. There is also a Facebook group for alumni if you are a former assistant and want to keep in touch with other alumni or with the program itself.

Acceptance e-mails were sent out starting Tuesday, April 6, for Americans. This year the embassy is requiring that you reply in order to accept or decline your position, before April 18. If you do not reply at all, your position will be given to someone on the waiting list, so don't forget to do it!

For Americans, acceptance e-mails are supposed to be sent out during the first week of April, so check your e-mail soon.

Enjoy your spring vacations and have a Happy Easter!

Zone A: April 10-25
Zone B: April 3-18
Zone C: April 17 - May 2

Don't forget that Easter Monday, April 5, is a jour férié.