AQPC

TITLE: Le dossier d'étude, pour évaluer autrement... Un portfolio d'apprentissage Offered only in French. See the French section of the site.

TITLE: De l'évaluation tradionnelle à l'évaluation des compétences, un cadre de référence renouvelé Offered only in French. See the French section of the site.

TITLE: Winning strategies in the classroom
Activity offered in collaboration with the Carrefour de la réussite au collégial, PERFORMA and the AQPC.

ANIMATORS:
One or two among the following:

• Ms Marie Ménard, Cégep Montmorency;
• Ms Francine Lauzon is a retired teacher and resource person with PERFORMA;
• Ms Marie-Claude Allard, educational advisor, Cégep St-Jean-sur-Richelieu;
• Ms Mélanie Guay, individual pedagogical support, Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon;
• Ms Danièle Pelletier, consultant and resource person with PERFORMA;
• Mr. Normand Bourgeois, educational advisor, Cégep Champlain –
• St. Lawrence.

New resource persons could be added to the activity.

SUMMARY:

In order for students to be successful, they must be actively involved in their learning and this engagement is set in motion in the classroom itself and nowhere else. Teachers are constantly asking themselves what are the best strategies for generating and sustaining their students’ commitment and thereby optimizing their learning.

This activity provides an opportunity to reflect on strategies that are likely to foster commitment and to propose tools that will act on the essential aspects of this commitment. Throughout the activity, participants are given the chance to experiment with actual techniques that promote an active commitment to learning. In short, the purpose is to provide teachers with the tools needed to effectively support students in their learning. A large part of this activity has to do with exchanges and reflection.

Although it is designed mainly for new teaching personnel as well as teachers seeking to innovate, this activity may also be of interest to professionals and managers involved in their institution’s overall plan for success.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES:

• Define what the challenge “success, it all starts in class” means in the context of the constant changes taking place in colleges today and current research on student commitment.
• Identify intervention strategies that are compatible with the teacher’s role.
• Experiment with strategies and techniques that promote student commitment and maximize learning.
• Exchange with colleagues on intervention strategies to use in class.

CONTENT:

The contents will be covered using presentations and various situation scenarios as well as by exploring and exchanging in subgroups.

• One contextual element that is currently bringing teaching practices into question is the changing characteristics of student populations. Other themes include:
• Student commitment and motivation for their education.
• Learning strategies to explore.
• Renewed teaching strategies.

FORMAT: The activity lasts from 3 to 5 hours.

This activity is offered in French and in English. Once the date for the activity is set with an institution, that college’s resource person works with the animators to define the form, the schedule and the duration of the activity as well as any required adaptations to the content based on that establishment’s particular needs.

The maximum number of participants for an activity is seventy (70).

TITLE: Enseigner les mathématiques... autrement !
Activity offered in collaboration with the Carrefour de la réussite au collégial, PERFORMA and the AQPC.
Offered only in French. See the French section of the site.