Experimentation school file : implementation of a self-regulated learning plan in Modern Languages

This project aims at implementing self-regulated techniques to learn modern languages which are taught in our school. This methodology was first developed by the CRAPEL (research centre and educational applications in Languages at Nancy 2 University. For these researchers, this project aims at «  offering learners the conceptual and material conditions to learn without being…

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Look upon the world and window on the other

How can a vocational school from a small country town open up to the world, learn to know itself by knowing other cultures, help others, either near or far, and get self-confident by acting ? Summary – from the project to its execution : «  disovering others to discover oneself » We implemented this project in…

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«  Evaluate differently : Evaluation by a contract of confidence (EBCC)  »

The project is in line with André Antibi’s researches you can find in a book called « La Constante Macabre » (the Macabre Constant). This University teacher in Paul Sabatier (Toulouse) starts from a simple review : whatever the pupils’level in a class, marks are always divided in three groups with a third of good marks, a…

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The Experts from Charmes, the scientifically revisited British detective short story

The annual project « The Experts from Charmes, the scientifically revisited British detective short story » run in this particular class is meant to help pupils with specific needs, it involves many subjects at the same time. This is a vital lead for these pupils to visualize the link between learning and doing and to…

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Continuity and transmission of the remembrance work : the hidden jewish children. Making a documentary video

In 2003, 3 pupils, preparing their baccalauréat, collected Albert Kenigsberg’s testimony on video (aged 75 at the time of the testimony) in order to understand one part of their history curriculum better and to discover one aspect of Arthur Varoquaux’s life. Headmaster of l’Ecole des jardiniers (present lycée Loritz, in Nancy), he hid Albert Kenigsberg,…

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Art makes school

«  Art makes school  » is an original cross-border project organised and funded by the Saarbrücken Ministerium für Bildung Kultur und Wissenschaft , the regional board of cultural services from Lorraine and an association called Œil de Forbach. Two classes from Lorraine and 6 classes from Sarre were selected to participate in this project from…

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Competence sport and industry : multi-activities project in a vocational high school (LP)

In spite of a computer-aided platform mainly integrating digital technologies, a specialized training offer in the wood industry, a boarding school and a canteen, our high school is lacking candidates. That’s why the school has been proposing to volunteers (12 to 15 pupils) another diploma in addition to the initial qualifications in the industrial sector…

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PROJECT «  grande école for political sciences  » : SCIENCES PO

Partnership between the I.E.P. (political studies institute in Paris or Sciences Po) and Saint Exupéry High School in Fameck. The spirit of the agreement. Since 2001 Sciences Po has been offering an access to its first year to pupils from designated areas with special educational needs. Its goal is to enrich the social opening of…

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Progressively learning how to read and understand written texts

– Children don’t understand like aduts do, which makes our usual questions uneffective. We want to make them enter what we think to be the «  objective  » meaning of a text whereas it is only our own perception and interpretation of this text. – Rewording in a more explicit way and confronting these different…

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Writing of a tale parody

Seeing that pupils neither reread their works, nor made an outline, or a draft, I tried to find ways to make them understand the true importance of rewriting. The idea of this rewriting project came after the release, in 2001, of Shrek, Jenson and Adamson’s parodic cartoon : I therefore decided to make pupils write…

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Pictures from the press, a learning tool for non-French speaking pupils

I teach French to a group of pupils who just arrived in France, therefore they don’t speak French. To motivate these new comers I make them work on a daily newspaper called l’actu. I try to choose themes which interest them and which aim at several goals : – Developing the idea of citizenship, –…

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Immediate decoding ! Education to mass media : decoding the information in the printing press and on television

This action was implemented with two 2nd year S.E.G.P.A. classes in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. It articulates around two axes. The first one is a journalistic writing project for Cartable (quarterly addition to the daily newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain, written by pupils). To be successful, this project was preceded by a seven-week period to discover this…

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New ways of organizing modern foreign language (MFL) teaching in 7th year (scientific classes : S)

– The continuing of the project set up in 6th form S in 2001-2002. The 7th year pupils are divided into two groups for the 2 ML: German – English, with no difference between ML1 and ML2. The different groups’ teachers meet and coordinate their teaching practices and their method of evaluating the pupils. Pupils…

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A spoken newspaper at the primary school

The will to improve pupils’oral expression was the starting point (we noticed that a lot of pronunciation errors were made, and that too many pupils frequently attended speech therapist’s), the school project became a daily spoken newspaper. This action seemed to be adapted to the long distance cure needed for this problem integrating ICT at…

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Cyber-workshop of artistical practice, acquiring an artistical culture thanks to the web

Introducing Art and especially contemporary Art is a real problem in a rural area. That’s why internet represents an extraordinary tool abolishing distances and allowing a direct contact with creators. Therefore the school developed chat sessions on its website in order to talk to artists. In an artistical practice workshop, pupils discover art websites and…

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Dropouts classes in Forbach, apparatus «  ESPOIRRR  »

The dropouts class in Forbach is an apparatus which receives pupils from the training and education basin of the Coal Basin. These pupils are dropouts and usually desocialized. Four main goals : · Imbricating reeducation and resocialization. · Maximizing school and educative demands. · Reinstating pupils in a short period of time and in the…

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New ways of dealing with modern languages teaching in 5th year

Pupils from four 5th year classes are put to test at the beginning of the school year and divided into three groups for the three following modern languages: German- English-Spanish. The three groups’ teachers meet and match their teaching practices and their way of evaluating the pupils. Pupils can switch from one group to another…

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