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 […]
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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 […]
The desire to learn, a matter of the heart
He is tall, very tall. And he makes himself small, very small. ” I didn’t do it on purpose, madam, it came out on its own Iheb flattens, sincerely sorry at the idea of having offended his teacher. ” It is not the first time ! She pretends to scold him. ” Not the first […]
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine attack: when the freedom to teach is under attack
Shock, anger, indignation … Honorary Inspector General Jean-Pierre Obin (1) is however not so surprised the day after the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine attack which cost the life of a professor of he 47-year-old history-geography, beheaded in the middle of the street for having recently shown his students a caricature of the prophet Mohammed. “Since an issue of […]