Insults, death threats. The many messages that target a teacher at the University of Aix-en-Provence and have pushed her to ask for police protection are incredibly violent. The reason for this hatred? She had held on October 27, in front of her students, remarks at least inappropriate on the religion which one inherits from the […]
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Secularism in France, teachers’ self-censorship on the rise according to an Ifop study
To avoid possible incidents in the classroom, 49% of teachers say they have already self-censored in their teaching around religious issues, a figure that has been rising since 2018 according to an Ifop survey for the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and Charlie Hebdo, published Wednesday January 6. This investigation, which comes nearly three months after the assassination […]
Level of students in math, the challenge of training teachers to raise their heads
What does the Timms study say? Four years after a previous edition which had sounded the alarm, this study carried out in 2019 shows that our students of CM1 and 4e are stuck at the very end of the ranking in mathematics and science. In CM1, for example, France comes last in the European class […]
Faced with Covid-19, more than one in two high schools has limited the reception of students
Nearly two weeks after authorizing high schools to adapt the reception of students to limit the spread of the virus, Jean-Michel Blanquer delivered a first figure, Tuesday, November 17, on LCI : “A little more than half of the lycées in France” have seized on this possibility. → INVESTIGATION. Half-groups or whole classes, the variable […]
Teachers’ salaries: an increase of € 100 for beginners
The salary of beginning teachers will increase by 100 € net per month from next May, announced Monday, November 16, the Ministry of National Education. This increase will be paid in the form of a bonus. → ANALYSIS. How to revalue the teaching profession About half of the ministry’s budget, increased by 500 million for […]
Covid-19, first day of health strike for teachers
According to national education estimates, nearly 9% of school teachers were on strike in primary school and just over 10% of secondary school teachers on Tuesday, November 10. Relatively low figures, totally contested by the inter-union organizations (FSU, FO, CGT, SUD and SNCL-FAEN) which had called for stopping work. “It’s a real scandal of state”, […]
Caricatures: Keys for Parents and Teachers
Did you know that the word “caricature” comes from the Gallic carrus, char, word which in popular Latin gave the verb caricare, charge, exaggerate? The National Library of France sheds light on this etymology in a Quick History of Caricature published online this week with a series of documentary resources around this topical subject. → […]
Homage to Samuel Paty: history teachers facing history
During the holidays, Fabien Mione, 38, talked a lot with his colleagues on different Whatsapp groups. “ Shocked »By the appalling assassination of Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography like him, this associate who teaches at the François-Villon college, classified as a priority education zone in the 11e arrondissement of Marseille, felt the need […]
Homage to Samuel Paty: what Jaurès’ “Letter to teachers” says
The reading of the “Letter to teachers” will be, with the minute’s silence, one of the highlights of the tribute that will be paid in all establishments in France, Monday, November 2, to Samuel Paty, the teacher. of history-geography assassinated on the eve of the All Saints holidays in a terrorist act that shook the […]
What educational pact between parents and teachers?
“For decades, because they are the first educators of their children, we have strengthened the place of parents in school”, notes LR deputy Annie Genevard. “A factor in student success. But there is also a dark aspect to this involvement, when it leads families to delegitimize the teacher by questioning the nature of the knowledge […]