Voiron France

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Lycée Edouard Herriot

• Voiron - France

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The school and its environment
The Lycée Edouard Herriot is located in a
wonderful park planted with trees on the heights
of the city of Voiron in Isère.The school
welcomes 1500 students or so who are taken care
of by 200 people among whom 120 teachers. The
school boasts a European Section, optional
subjects (Drama, History of the Arts) and an
active sports association. It offers many
high-quality subjects preparing the students to
general and vocational A Levels ( Baccalauréats
généraux and technologiques) and to 2 vocational
training certificates (BTS Brevet de Technicien
Supérieur taken after the age of18, after the
Baccalauréat)
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The Project at School

• Acknowledgement within our school there are
  many different clubs but none is about
  sustainable development this theme is dealt
  with by some teachers during their lessons but
  there is no real coordination in any way.
• Objective to create a group dynamics and to
  arouse peoples interest among teachers on the
  one hand, among students on the other hand.

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The process

• 1st year the process consists in introducing
  students and teachers as citizens to an eco
  approach and to lay the foundations of a
  pluridisciplinary work around the problemetics
  raised by sustainable development. How ?
• By creating a pedagogical think tank about how to
  teach sustainable development (by reconsidering
  our teaching methods concerning sustainable
  development)
• By going through the whole school curriculum and
  considering it all through sustainable
  development
• By carrying out (in a very concrete way) an
  ecocitizen project at school so as to sensitize
  as many students as possible and so as to
  perpetuate the process
• By sharing experiences with an Italian school and
  a school from Burkina-Faso

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The process

• 2nde year
• It also consists in bearing in mind previous
  actions and creating a sustainable development
  club on a voluntary basis so as to organize
  ecocitizen actions at school.
• The process consists in going deeper into the
  pluridisciplinary work started the previous year
  and thus widening our pedagogical
  experimentations by including several forms in
  seconde (first year in a lycée)

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Staff involved

• Members of the school administration technicians
  and ancillary staff
• 1st year one first form with a Europeanbased
  curriculum and teachers
• Ms ASTA, Italian
• Ms BARET, History-Geography / Civics
• Ms FAURE, French
• Mr GEORGE, Economics
• Mr GLANE, Biology
• Mr JACQUOT, Physics-Chemistry
• Ms PICQ, English
• 2nd year two first forms and teachers
• Ms BARET, History-Geography / Civics
• Ms CHABERT, Physics-Chemistry
• Ms FAURE, French
• Ms HUMEAU, Mathemetics
• Mr JACQUOT, Physics-Chemistry
• Mr MARIN, Economics
• Ms MITTELBRONN, Biology

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Numerous achievements,

• Interdisciplinary objectives have been worked out
  such as
• Using the theme sustainable development as a
  guideline / a link / between our subjects to
  bring meaning, unity, coherence to our teachings
  in the studentseyes.
• Setting a common curriculum concerning knowledge,
  know-how and well-being to enhance the learning
  of our students, to make our expectations clear
  for them and to gain time during our lessons
  taking into account what the students studied in
  other subjects
• Sharpening our studentscritical mind (a sound
  mind in a healthy body), avoiding all kinds of
  gloommongering while reasonning ,
  re-introducing doubt when thinking and analyzing
  even in sciences.
• Making the students more inquisitive,
  self-sufficient and responsible to develop their
  action in their daily lifes behaviour (think
  global, act local / think worlwide, act
  localwise)
• Making our teachings more concrete, real, by
  choosing examples or exercises taken in our
  students local environment (Voiron, la
  Communauté dAgglomération du Pays Voironnais, le
  Parc Naturel Régional de Chartreuse)
• Involving parents in the school life and the
  theme sustainable development, asking them to
  intervene or offering them to participate in
  some activities organized inside or outside
  school.

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varied achievements,

• Numerous outside contributors
• The Association Artisans du Monde came to
  speak about fair trade and what is at stake.
• Sisaliao Svengsuksa, a fairrice producer in
  Laos.
• Amadou Diallo , President of a Malian GNO
  advocating the development of a milk local-based
  network (path)
• Pierre Aldebert, CNRS
• Jean-Marc Tacnet, CEMAGREF
• Patricia Servage, from the CAPV Public Transport
  Services.
• Numerous field trips and activities
• School trip in the Isère Valley
• School trip in Chartreuse (Regional Natural Park)
• School trip and exchange with an Italian School
  including a day outing in the Abruzzes National
  Park

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but 2 main achievements

• FIRST YEAR
• A fair trade school meal at school
• SECOND YEAR
• Birth of a Sustainable Development Club at school

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Assessment

• Positive points
• The birth of a true dynamic current among
  teachers a strong team was born, composed of
  teachers eager to work, think together, to
  develop pedagogical experimentations so as to
  find other methods of teaching sustainable
  development.
• Another successful achievement the students
  have become aware of the problem and so
  interested in the themes that many of them have
  decided to use those themes as topics of their
  TPE (a kind of personal work and report).
• The parternships thus created and the European
  exchanges have proved very rich and worthwhile.

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Assessment

• Negative points
• Cumbersome red tape / bureaucracy has hindered
  the smooth unfolding of the project.
• The constraints of the school curriculum and
  schedule have curbed our ambitions .
• Unfortunately, the national events that have
  recently taken place, have prevented us from
  carrying out our projects as planned.

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Future prospects

• A new project in 2008-2009
• 1,2,3...SUN
• based on the theme renewable energies
• and of course keeping on thinking about what we
  did previously
• as well as being able to say the
  Sustainable Development Club is well and alive in
  our Lycée Edouard Herriot, Voiron !

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Many thanks to our regional sponsors