Berenguer Jean-Luc
International School Valbonne Sophia Antipolis, France
I currently teach biology and geology at International School in Valbonne Sophia Antipolis, on the French Riviera near Nice. In the past, I also worked in a few French schools in Canada, Germany and Portugal before coming back to France.
When not in the classroom, I’m a coordinator for an educational seismological network in France called Sismometers at school. Indeed, working on seismometers in schools gives students (12-17 years old) more motivation and a better opportunity to focus on natural hazards knowledge as well as the use of real time databases. I also supervise the teachers’ training program in geosciences. And I hope to develop the project further to include meteorological and hydrogeological network and data.
I try to make my students or my colleagues realize how important more investigation, more field tools, more data use in science teaching are. I involve my students in field schoolwork and in network databases. I am really looking forward to bringing more authentic science to my students.
Hiking, traveling, taking photos and collecting rocks are usually my favorite hobbies. I am looking forward to School of Rock 2009 to be able to integrate more ocean science into my classroom and into teachers’ workshops.
