Rouen. This history-geo teacher among the 50 best teachers in the world!
Through Margot Nicodemus
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Juline Anquetin Rault devoted almost all his life to his profession, that of professor of history and geography, to Simone-Veil training center in Rouen (Seine-Maritime). In parallel with her classes, she gives an atypical grade, the 36-year-old teacher has created a school support agency, from the 6th level. It is this dual activity, or rather his way of promoting a innovative methodology, which earned him to be selected for the prestigious World Teachers’ Award.
Some 8,000 candidates, coming from the four corners of the globe, were originally in the running for this annual prize, and Juline is now one of… the last 50 professors selected! At the end of the day, a check for a million dollars, but that’s far from what motivates the 30-something. “I was able to join a network of passionate teachers, with whom I will try to carry out a common project. And above all, I have a voice, internationally, which allows me to say: ‘Listen to me, I have found something, we can see if it works to develop it’ ”, she relates humbly.
Its motto ? “Let them do it”
This “something”, which makes the particularity and effectiveness of Juline Anquetin-Rault’s teaching, consists in giving methodology a prominent place. “It is the method that will change everything, at a time when we meet erudition ahead. “In this sense, she has developed material” which will allow the student to learn alone, at his own pace. “
My motto is let them do it. I think we have to stop forcing things into the heads of children, adolescents, and even adults. You have to make the student understand that he has time to think, without having the teacher telling him to hurry, that he only has three minutes left.
Concretely, the teacher works on manipulation, which “works much better on the brain”, according to her, through practical exercises. She replaced the traditional geography maps with polystyrene boards, with toothpicks as flags. “The pupil has only to stick his toothpick to place the cultural places of Rouen for example, or the big cities of the world. But that’s not all: she also uses flashcards, those cards on which part of the information is written on the front, part on the back, diagrams to be made with transparent sheets, and so on.
And its originality pays off: for four years, its students have displayed a success rate of 100%. “I want to show that benevolence is not at the expense of high standards. ”
His dream, to create a training center for teachers
On the strength of her 12-year career, Juline has put together a concrete dossier, within the framework of the competition, in which she details what motivated her to exercise her profession, and, among other things, what she puts in place to help its students, in particular in this context of health crisis.
“We also had to say what we would do with the million dollar if we won it… I would like to create a training center for teachers. If we touch a teacher, we touch thousands of students… ”
In one to two weeks, the top 10 will be revealed. The final result, with the lucky million dollar winner, will be communicated at a ceremony in Paris in November 2021. “Usually it takes place in Dubai every year. And if it is not known in France, it is elsewhere: among the members of the jury of previous years, Bill Clinton, Hugh Jackman and even the Pope! “
Until then, keep your fingers crossed!
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