Group items tagged

Le Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Ressources Naturelles et du Développement Rural (MARNDR) éprouve la plus grande satisfaction à publier cet atlas agricole d'Haïti. Cet extrant informationnel, qui vient deux ans après la collecte exhaustive des informations au niveau de toutes les exploitations agricoles du pays, est la dixième de la série. En effet, compte tenu de l'énorme masse d'informations à redresser, saisir et contrôler, qui porte sur un total de 1.053.107 exploitations occupant le paysage agricole haïtien et de l'urgence de publier les résultats, le MARNDR avait jugé plus approprié de le faire progressivement, c'est-à- dire département après département. Il s'ensuivra au terme de la série une consolidation des informations pour une projection nationale.

info on Hunan for Snow Flower 

"Traditional American classrooms tend to fit a particular mold: Students face the front of the class where teachers lecture. Students take notes, finish assignments at home, and hope to memorize enough information just long enough to pass a test. Engagement and passion are often in short supply - among students and teachers. The system does not necessarily accommodate all learning styles, and even those who fair well may be missing out on other important work-life lessons, like how to creatively solve problems, stay focused, work as part of a team, and organize their thoughts in a way others will understand. This is where project-based learning enters the equation."

"Building reading competence seems to be a bit more challenging these days. Maybe it's just me, but students seem quite reluctant or incapable of guessing while reading. We have to provide a comfortable environment to encourage guessing. Moreover, teachers need to find ways of attracting students to reading of any kind-for information [see http://flava2011.wikispaces.com%5D and for pleasure. I feel it's somehow related to our testing culture that demands 'the right answer.' So how can we build reading? -By following what good parents do with children as they grow. Read children's books to your students-in class or in a reading circle on the floor in the library. Let students read for fun without an assignment attached. Or, read with a fun assignment. Read song lyrics and use them for a variety of reading steps: pick out words you can guess, pick out verbs that look similar to ones you've seen recently, which activities refer to a future event?, which phrases use an object pronoun? Which words go along with our area of study [Earth Day for example] Look at a related website and repeat the steps above. When does the song change from lyrics in one language to another? Link reading to a visual and show the visual first-a personal video, a tourism clip, a feature film. I used to think this was the reward after the reading, but so many topics can be enhanced if you teach about them saying: remember when you saw… [A previous student's video about daily routines, the advertisement for the Col Vert campground, Petit Nicolas, The Phantom of the Opera are such examples worth a preview."

French federation of various water sports. Lots of news, team information, etc.

What do you think of when you think of your Target Language country/countries? While you may have spent some time there - and traveled to various spots - your students may have not. As a Japanese teacher it seems that Tokyo is the number 1 'want to go to' place for my students. However, as I spent my first 2 years in Japan in smaller more out of the way places, I want my students to learn that there's more to Japan than the big urban areas. And so the Year4 travel fair - a summative activity at the end of a 2-week unit - was born. It allows students to utilize key words they will need if/when they visit Japan - and also allows them to research and introduce key areas to their classmates during an interactive oral. For me the fair takes a week - with time spent planning/preparing for the 'fair', running the fair and then using the information for a written 'summative' evaluation. (My handout - for my Yr4 Japanese class including is here) The premise: Design an optional tour for a visitor to Japan - one that is outside major urban areas (I list the 'no go' places). This can be a 2 or 3 day tour.

The LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. LINGUIST is a free resource, run by linguistics professors and graduate students, and supported primarily by your donations.

As most of you know, the uber gods of PBL are BIE. I was first introduced to the BIE PBL 'model' from mate Dean Groom who handed me over what I still refer to as my 'PBL Bible' - a ring-binder full of the BIE Freebies that help teachers plan effective projects and keep students on track as they move through the different phases of each project. The cool thing is that you can use as much or as little as you want … PBL is a very personal process that (like all good teaching) should be tailored to the expertise and needs of the teacher and students. However, there are 8 Elements of Project Based Learning that can be called the 'essential elements' of PBL … keeping an eye on these and 'testing' your project design based on them can help you determine if what you're creating isn't just a 'project'. I really like this statement from BIE contrasting PBL and traditional 'projects':

A typical unit with a "project" add-on begins by presenting students with knowledge and concepts and then, once gained, giving students the opportunity to apply them. Project Based Learning begins with the vision of an end product or presentation. This creates a context and reason to learn and understand the information and concepts.

des ressources sur le Québec, sa culture, géographie, etc.

Just getting started with project-based learning (PBL)? Our curated list of resources for educators new to PBL should help you. Before you get started, be sure to check out Edutopia's PBL page, including information about the research behind effective PBL practices. You can also connect with Edutopia's community to learn and share PBL tips.

Project-based learning (PBL) demands excellent assessment practices to ensure that all learners are supported in the learning process. With good assessment practices, PBL can create a culture of excellence for all students. We've compiled some of the best resources from Edutopia and the web to support your use of assessment in PBL, including information about strategies, advice on how to address the demands of standardized tests, and summaries of the research.

Information on children's book to use for an interpretive activity

Édith Piaf, née Édith Giovanna Gassion le 19 décembre 1915 à Paris et morte le 10 octobre 1963 à Grasse, est une chanteuse française de music-hall. Archétype de la chanteuse grasseyante par son roulement des r, elle est l'une des dernières interprètes de la chanson réaliste française. Cinquante ans après sa mort, elle demeure la plus célèbre chanteuse francophone à travers le monde. Surnommée à ses débuts « la Môme Piaf », elle est à l'origine de nombreux succès devenus des classiques du répertoire, comme La Vie en rose, Non, je ne regrette rien, l'Hymne à l'amour, Mon légionnaire, La Foule, Milord, Mon Dieu ou encore L'Accordéoniste. Chanteuse à l'interprétation et la voix saisissante, elle a inspiré de nombreux compositeurs, a été le mentor d'artistes plus jeunes tels qu'Yves Montand, Charles Aznavour, Les Compagnons de la chanson, Georges Moustaki, et a connu une renommée internationale, malgré une fin de carrière rendue difficile par de graves problèmes de santé et une mort survenue à seulement 47 ans.

Entre l'invention de la machine à calculer (1645) et celle du Minitel (1982), 350 années se sont écoulées au cours desquelles la France a fait avancer les lignes grâce à de multiples inventions : dans les transports (automobile, aérostat, avion, TGV, Concorde), en médecine (Braille, pasteurisation et vaccination, BCG, radiologie et radiothérapie), en physique (machine à vapeur, électromagnétisme, radioactivité, mécanique ondulatoire, détecteurs de particules), dans les arts visuels (photographie, cinématographe), dans les arts de la table (Champagne, conservation des aliments), dans les hautes technologies (carte à puce, Minitel)… Au fil du temps, ces inventions ont contribué à changer le monde.

La Fondation GoodPlanet a pour objectifs de mettre l'écologie au cœur des consciences et de promouvoir le vivre ensemble. Elle souhaite susciter l'envie d'agir concrètement en ce sens.