The head of National Education Jean-Pierre Tégon, the principal of Lycée Malika Hakhebbil and Eric Dupont, director of vocational training, were the guests of the first meeting of the year of Place publique to talk about National Education in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.
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The program Place publique is back since Friday on our radio, TV and web antennas. For its comeback, national education in the archipelago was at the heart of the debate led by Martine Briand and Anastasia Laguerra. The three guests discussed various themes, such as educational follow-up in times of health crisis, reforms in vocational education and the general bac, or even the boarding school for success.
Absenteeism because of the crisis has almost disappeared
First topic addressed, that of absenteeism these last two weeks in schools. With the upsurge in Covid-19 cases and contact cases, many parents have chosen not to send their children to school. “Today we are back to an almost normal situation“, noted the head of the national education services Jean-Pierre Tégon. The students of the two classes of Terminale of the Lycée Emile Letournel, among whom a child had been detected positive for Covid-19, were still asked to stay at home. them until Monday.
The health protocol in place, including the wearing of a compulsory mask from the age of 6, should not change immediately. Jean-Pierre Tégon specified that schools will not be systematically closed for each new case – as requested by elected officials of the archipelago and certain parents of pupils two weeks ago – in order to optimize the educational follow-up. “It is in the interest of the students, added Mr. Tégon. They need benchmarks, social connections and working with a teacher. “
The Lycée “ready” for distance education in the event of new confinement
To a question asked about the possibility of setting up a hybrid education – both face-to-face and at a distance – in the event of new confinement in the archipelago, the headmistress of the Lycée was reassuring: “We already have the experience of last year: during confinement, our teachers experimented with remote work. We have tools, various practices.”
“If further containment occurs, we will be able to respond.”
Tools and experience that are a little more complicated to put into practice for students of the vocational school, recognizes Eric Dupont, deputy director of vocational training. “Students must manipulate. There will undoubtedly be an adaptation to make“, he explains.
Reforms of the general bac and vocational courses to be taken into account
This year, General Terminale students will have to experience the new version of the baccalaureate. An evolution disrupted by the health crisis. Also locally, adaptations of the initial formula are also to be expected. Thus, the written evaluations of the teaching of specialties, which were to take place in March, were canceled. The averages of the three terms of continuous assessment will therefore be used to assess the baccalauréat holders. In June, the written philosophy test and the grand oral will also be organized.
Regarding the reform of vocational education, adaptations are ongoing, according to Eric Dupont. After the 2nds last year and the 1sts this year, it will be the turn of the Vocational Terminals next year to apply the new measures of the reform.
The boarding school of success still at a standstill
Almost five years after the first stone laid by Manuel Valls then Prime Minister, the subject which begins to cause controversy. The project to build the boarding school for success, supposed to accommodate high school students from Miquelonnais in Saint-Pierre, is not moving forward. “We will soon be relaunching calls for tenders to companies, announced Jean-Pierre Tégon. I’m not setting the schedule. This project must come to an end. “
Recruitment issues on the table
Since the start of the school year, problems in recruiting secondary school teachers have been recurrent and deprive students of continuous education in several subjects, particularly in History and Geography.
“There is a real recruitment problem. We run out of candidates when we need them”
Asked about the possibility of partnerships between public and private establishments in the archipelago that could employ the same teacher, the principal of the Lycée Malika Hakhebbil specified that exchanges in this direction had been made, but that there was then no no availability.
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