“That’s validated!” » School teacher Delphine Guichard confirms this: her CM2 student has just won his English purple belt with flying colors. She answered, without hesitation, a (large) series of questions in English and in English, the answers to which could be, depending on the case, given with chalk on the board or orally. Like judo, it can still validate two levels – two colors – of belt: brown and black. At the same time, the 18 other students in the class are also invited to respond on their slates. Individual performance thus serves everyone. And everyone applauds the winner of the day.
Individual performance serves everyone
Delphine Guichard – alias Charivari on the Internet and social networks – adapted the judo belts process to apply it in her class at Les Fontaines school in Souvigny-en-Sologne. Particularly for multiplication tables, conjugation, grammar or even English… This educational innovation is one of those that she willingly shares on the Internet via her school teacher blog, one of the oldest of its kind since she created it at the time of her reconversion to teaching in 2007. An old dream realized by this Solognote who had a first career in the private sector, notably in project management of IT projects.
A belt the color of your level
By the end of the year, each of the 19 CM2 students will take a test to win a belt in the color corresponding to their level. “Belts could be seen a bit as every man for himselfconfides Delphine Guichard to the NR during his lunch break. It’s good to counterbalance with cooperation. » Hence the coaching diplomas which line two of the classroom walls. There are noted, by preferred subject, the students who can serve as tutors to their classmates. The coaching contracts precisely detail the outline of the help provided: one student will provide help to another in a particular time slot.
Depending on the subject, the tutor and the student sometimes switch roles. Around twenty coaching sessions are underway these days. ” That works wellattests Delphine Guichard. I don’t believe at all that the heterogeneity of the class prevents students from progressing. The one who helps also progresses. When you have to explain to a friend, [les savoirs s’ancrent mieux]. My good students are excellent in college! »
After the test for the purple belt in English, it’s time for playlets, still in the language of Shakespeare, performed by the students. Who don’t need to be asked! “ Mistress, will everyone pass? », worries one of them. Faced with the teacher’s affirmative response, the whole class exults. Some students will ask to pass several times! Then, it’s time for the “Incollables”: representatives of several teams formed in the class answer a series of questions asked in succession by Delphine Guichard, in all areas. Work carried out throughout the year: the students are also amazing. “I alternate sessions of 20 minutes each, most oftenconcludes the 54-year-old teacher. I haven’t seen a drastic decline in children’s attention spans. »
Pierre Calmeilles
2024-04-18 14:12:44
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