During the last CréaCamp in Montreal, we met Valérie Cadieux, who shares with us the challenges and successes she experiences as an elementary school teacher and which push her to become the best possible version of herself.
By Alexane St-Amant Ringuette
Creating a positive learning environment for all her students is a priority for Valérie. This is why the difficulties she has encountered this year in maintaining a pleasant classroom functioning have given her serious questions. How to assert yourself as a teacher while responding to the many learning and behavioral difficulties of her students?
Valérie is certainly not the only one to experience this kind of challenges and questions in the world of teaching ...
"For me it is essential that the students feel good in class, because once we are well, we can learn" - Valérie Cadieux
Find your professional identity by targeting your success factors
It is important to find teaching strategies that resemble us and to look for its success factors in order to have the best possible impact on your class. Valérie realized that by offering creative and digital projects to her students, she could mobilize them more.
In this interview, Valérie underlines that we tend to believe that it is not possible to make projects when class management is difficult, whereas it is rather the opposite: projects improve the functioning of the class. and even make it possible to integrate certain school concepts which would not “pass” through traditional teaching methods.
We invite you to discover the authentic testimony of a teacher who follows her passions to create the best possible learning environment for her students.
You can also follow Valérie's thoughts on social networks:
Produced with the support of Carrefour Éducation
