Soirée avec Antoinette Champclos et Pierre Frolla sur la Performance Maximum

“Performance Maximum”: 

 

Une conférence autour des secrets de réussite des grands champions avec

Antoinette CHAMPCLOS et Pierre FROLLA

à Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat

 

Performance Maximum: conférence d'Antoinette Champclos et de Pierre Frolla

Quelles sont les stratégies et les méthodes de succès des grands champions et comment pourrions-nous apprendre chez eux pour réussir nos propres objectifs? 

 

Pour répondre à cette question, j’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer qu’une nouvelle conférence est prévue

le vendredi, 15 Juin 2012 à 19h30

à la Médiathèque de Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat

 

Cette fois, j’ai invité Pierre FROLLA, quadruple champion du monde en apnée, mais pas seulement… Auteur, aventurier, philanthrope et protecteur de l’environnement, qui mieux que lui pourrait nous dévoiler les secrets et la méthode de succès des grands champions.

 

Soirée avec Pierre Frolla et Antoinette Champclos 15 juin

Pierre FROLLA, vainqueur de quatre records du monde en apnée

 

Au programme:

 

 Performance Maximum: soirée avec A. Champclos et Pierre Frolla

Venez nombreux!

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Un roman incontournable: “Les Mystères des Tuileries”

BERNARD SPINDLER: 

Une conférence passionnante pour amoureux de l’histoire;

Un roman des lieux et destins magiques 

 

Bernard Spindler et Antoinette Champclos

Conférence de Bernard SPINDLER, 19 Avril 2012 à Monaco

 

L’Homme de radio et de télévision, le Président du Monaco Press Club, Bernard Spindler, a présenté hier à Monaco une conférence sur la vie de l’Impératrice Eugénie de Montijo, durant laquelle il a fait revivre les grands moments de l’époque de Napoléon III, en particulier la vie sentimentale de l’Impératrice, en mettant l’accent sur des événements peu connus qui se sont déroulés sur les côtes normandes, notamment à Deauville.

 

Ecrivain reconnu et passionné d’Histoire, Bernard Spindler est auteur de  « Le Mystère des Tuileries », un roman historique des lieux et destins magiques, reflétant les  épisodes de l’Histoire de France liés à la vie de l’Impératrice Eugénie.

 

 

Bernard Spindler, Le Mystère des Tuileries, Livre Editions Rocher

 

Extrait du livre :

« Vingt heures. La foule s’écrase devant la grande verrière de l’Opéra. Louis Napoléon a posé sur ses genoux le bicorne emplumé de blanc. Eugénie de Montijo, splendide, en crinoline bleue, est assise à sa droite. – Tu as l’air d’une dogaresse ! Napoléon III admire sa femme, elle a la beauté altière d’une princesse de Venise. – Sabres ! Debout sur leurs étriers, les dragons en bas des marches portent le pommeau de leur sabre à hauteur des lèvres.Le carrosse du couple impérial s’immobilise dans la lumière crue des lampadaires. L’aide de camp sourit, tend la main à Eugénie… Un éclair de feu jaillit sous le timon de la berline, une formidable explosion pulvérise la verrière en milliers de projectiles. L’attentat de janvier 1858 est l’un des six dont réchappera Napoléon III. Généreuse, l’impératrice exigera avec insolence qu’on laisse la vie au terroriste Orsini. – Je sais, monsieur le ministre de la Police, faire la part des choses entre l’horreur du geste et la noblesse du discours. »

 

Avec ce nouveau roman, Bernard Spindler aborde la vie intime et secrète de l’épouse de Napoléon III, jusqu’à sa fuite rocambolesque pour l’Angleterre. « Eugénie » est la dernière héroïne du destin tragique et mystérieux des souveraines aux Tuileries. Bernard Spindler a déjà publié une dizaine d’ouvrages, dont deux romans aux éditions du Rocher.

 

Le mystère des Tuileries” est un romain incontournable pour tous les passionnés d’histoire. Mon conseil: à lire sans modération!

 

Antoinette Champclos

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Your 1st year in France as a foreign student: work hard, play hard

Your 1st semester in France as a foreign student

Work hard, play hard

 

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College is a great opportunity to enjoy new freedom and explore a new place. Be careful what you do with that freedom though. For many new freshmen, living away from home means partying every night. Enjoy the social scene at your school, but remain balanced. If you have a big test, study and reward yourself with a night out when it is finished. Avoid peer pressure by setting your own limits and sticking to them. It may be hard to turn down a night out with new friends, but you’ll be establishing your dedication to your work early on and your friends won’t bother you in the future if they know you’ve stayed in to study.

 

 

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Study in France: Create a Good Study Environment

study in France:

Creating a Good Study Environment

 

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When you are studying in France or else where, your environment will play one of the major roles of your success or failure. Whether in your room or any part of your house, your environment should be conducive to studying. It takes a little planning to create a good study environment or study area. This is important if you do not want any distractions so you can focus and concentrate fully on your tasks.
 

The key to a good study environment is to minimize or eliminate all distractions. This means you have to turn off everything that can be a source of distraction like television, cellphones and other gadgets. If you are going to do your studies using the laptop or PC, you should not visit any social networking sites or answer emails that are not too important.
 
The seat you are using when studying should have a good back support. You can study on the couch but you can be tempted to lay flat after a while which is not a good thing. Studying should not give you a sore back so you have to get a comfortable seat when you are studying.
 
Lighting is also very important in creating a good study environment. You do not want your eyes to get too strained if the lighting is too dim for you. Tired eyes can make you drowsy and sleepy. So make sure your study area has a good lighting.
 
You can turn on some background music to drown out the little noises that can distract you from studying.
 
You have to keep snacks and drinks close like fruits and calories which are not too high on calories.
 

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10 Tips for College Students

10 Tips for College Students

 
 
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1. Network with people

 

 

One day you’ll walk across a stage, and a very smart looking man or woman in a really nice, long, black gown will hand you a piece of paper that says “Bachelor” (even if you’re a girl!) on it. You’ll graduate from college. Do you know what you’ll remember most?

 
The relationships you’ve made.

My advice is to meet everyone you can. Be friendly. Smile. Talk to people (not in class…that could be dangerous). Go to places where people hang out and hang out with them. Your friends are what make college special.
 
Some day you’ll come back to campus as an alumni and the place will feel weird. It will feel different. That’s because all of the people that you were friends with during your college years aren’t there. It’s the same college, but different people. It’s the people that make your experience unique. You are going to make friends that you’ll have for the rest of your life.
 
Like I said earlier, I work at a University. My boss (yes…he’s smarter than me) is a good friend that I went to college all four years with. It’s been a great relationship for all this time. I don’t know of any other place you create these types of relationships at this age. So get out there. Get busy meeting people.

 

2. Ask advice by your professors

 

This one continues on with the theme of number 1. Go ahead and do everything you can to meet your professors. Make an appointment with them as soon as it is possible in their schedule. I have discovered that I learned so much more from a professor when I had some kind of personal relationship with them.
 
Professors are people to. Respect their time and make sure you communicate clearly with them. Don’t waste their time with excuses for not doing the work or simply not showing up to class. The goal here is to establish some type of relationship.
 
Whenever I think about a subject or content I learned in college it is tied to the face of a professor. If I think of learning German – it’s McKinney; if it’s creative writing – Nelson; if it’s communication – Jackson. My knowledge came from a person more than it came from a book.
 
One of my favorite movies is Orange County. It’s a story about a high school senior that wants to get into Stanford. He’s enamored with the writings of a certain professor there. When he finally has the chance to meet the professor and sit down and talk with him, it changes his entire perspective. While those types of conversations might be rare in your experience because you go to a large University – seek them out anyway! They’ll be some of the best memories you take from your time in college.

 

 

3. Ask for help

 

One of the reasons you’re in college is because you don’t know everything. If you can learn to admit that, you’ll be ahead of most freshmen at your school.
 
Independence messes up most teenagers in that they want to do everything by themselves. So when a moment comes when they can’t do something or don’t know something, there’s an inner struggle. I encourage you to put the pride aside and ask for help.
 
If you need help in class, get a tutor. If you need directions to the financial aid office, ask for them. If you don’t know how to complete an application for an internship, look for someone who does.
 
Your school will have people that can proofread your papers, help you learn how to do your laundry the right way, and even give you some good advice on how to stay in shape (because we all need our health!).
 
Look at it this way: You will become smarter if you ask for help when you need it. If you don’t ask…you’ll remain ignorant. I’m not advocating that you shouldn’t try to find things out on your own. But there comes a time where you’ll discover that learning happens better in the context of “we” and not just “me.” And you might also discover that the best way to meet people is to simply ask, “Hi, would you mind giving me a hand with this?”

 

 

4. Sleep enough to keep performant

 

One thing that you have in common with every other person in the world is that each person needs to sleep. If you don’t get enough sleep, bad things start happening to your mind and body. I know this is difficult to hear, and I’m probably beginning to sound a bit parental by saying this, but go to bed.
 
I’ve pulled my share of all-nighters. I’ve had to study, cram, write, and just get it done. I’ve also stayed up too late because I kept losing at Halo and had to play just one more game. Either way, it messed me up for the next day. My body had to play catch up. I wasn’t sharp. If you string enough late nights together, you are not going to be the learning machine that you need to be.
 
I know you’re young and invincible. But sleep is so necessary. Research says that a night of sleep deprivation is like being mentally impaired by the legal blood-alcohol level. When you don’t get adequate sleep, you’re body ages faster. Sleep also helps to relieve stress…so if you’re stressed out – you may simply need a good nap.

Ultimately, getting enough sleep is a matter of prioritization. Just because you CAN stay up, doesn’t mean you SHOULD stay up. You need to be mature enough to know when you need to get some sleep so that you can be an effective college student.

 

 

5. Organize your life: practice a proper time management

 

Everyone needs a plan to accomplish all of the things that are required of you in college. It is extremely easy to start living from event to event, assignment to assignment when you’re neck deep into your semester.
 
My number one piece of advice for getting organized – get a calendar and stick to it, live by it, and look at it everyday. Now there’s lots of types of calendars out there. I like to use Google Calendar. It’s online and I can access it from anywhere. Since I spend a fair bit of time on the computer, it’s always handy. Plus, I’ve got it linked up to my email and the datebook software on my Palm Treo. But that’s my way. I made a choice one day that Google Calendar was going to be MY calendar. You’ve got to decide and stick with it.
 
Some colleges will provide you with a paper-based calendar like a planner. This may include dates of important events for your college, key deadlines, and class schedules. If you are pen & paper minded, this may be the route for you. I also recommend the Moleskine planner. It’s smaller and easier to carry.
 
Once you’ve chosen your calendar, you need to get busy putting EVERYTHING into it. That’s right. Put every assignment, every deadline, every part of your extensive social commitments. Remember, you don’t want to be surprised. It’s a horrible feeling to realize that you had a vital paper due yesterday. At the beginning of each semester, sit down with all of your syllabi and fill in that calendar. Set reminders a few days before big projects come due. This will also help you to see when you will have difficult weeks with lots of obligations so you can get cracking ahead of time.

Now that you’ve chosen a calendar, put all your information in it, you’ve got to manage it. At the start of each week, look over the week ahead. KNOW WHAT’S COMING! If you only look at each day as it arrives, you’ll miss opportunities to be excellent.
 
That’s the beauty of being organized. It creates space for you to do your best work. You know when something is coming and you make the appropriate time to do your best.

 

6. Don’t forget to have fun

 

This is one of the best parts of college. You are going to have a ton of fun…especially if you follow the other pieces of advice in this article. College is one of the funnest experiences you will ever have. You are living with a lot of other like-minded people who are in the same situation that you’re in. It’s like Survivor (especially in the school cafeteria), but no one gets voted off the island.
 
I laughed a lot in college. I liked to hang around people who made me laugh and didn’t take themselves so seriously. There were lots of events to attend. My buddies and I would take some great roadtrips during the breaks. There is a lot of freedom to do a lot of things while you’re in college. I chose to have as much fun as was humanly possible.
 
The other benefit of having fun is that it makes incredible memories. I can remember some phenomenal pranks that have become lore at the college I attended (I won’t say what it is or my own level of involvement because the statute of limitations has yet to expire). While I didn’t play sports in college, I was an intramural animal.
 
Also, I don’t want you to get the impression that all of the fun occurred outside of the classroom. When you discover what you’re unique strengths are and land in a major that falls in line with your passions, learning becomes tremendously fun. I can remember projects and classes that I really enjoyed and looked forward to them. I think there were some professors who really made learning fun.
 
I guess with any aspect of college you can make the choice to have fun or to stress out. I encourage you to choose fun – even in the midst of hard work.

 

7. Get involved.

 

Your college has multiple organizations that are centered around social or academic themes. There are clubs and councils that are always looking for new members. You may have a bent toward student leadership and I encourage you to jump in and apply for those positions. It has been proven that those students who get involved in extracurricular activities have a better college experience. They also have a stronger attachment to their school when they become alumni.

 

8. Learn to write well
 
One of the lessons I’ve learned from Scott Ginsberg is that “writing is the basis of all wealth.” I think he’s on to something there. I would add that writing is the basis of your success in college. While you are a college student, you will read A LOT. But you will also be required to write A LOT. Your writing skills are a KEY factor in how your work will be perceived by a professor.
 
You can have the best content in the world, but if you aren’t able to deliver that through good writing, your work will get lost in the translation. I am surprised how many college students can’t spell, don’t know how to structure a sentence properly, and use poor grammar. If you struggle with writing, then I encourage you to re-read #3. You must get this one down.
 
One of the reasons that I started this site (CollegeStudentsRule!.com) is to help college students become better communicators. If you can write better, your work will be better. If your work is better, your grades will be better. I realize that you may be the best person in your class at text messaging…but those little acronyms don’t hold up too well under a professor’s scrutiny.
 
Along with writing, I would encourage you to take a typing course. The computer is here to stay and if you are typing with two fingers, you’re wasting time. I think that you should work to be able to type at least 60 words a minute. Faster would be even better. Can you type without looking at the keyboard? This is a skill that won’t only benefit you in college, but in the workforce as well.
 
One final note on writing well is in regards to proofreading. Please don’t type out a paper and print it out and turn it in. Think in terms of drafts. If you turn a first draft into a professor, he or she will know that it’s a first draft. This post that I’m writing won’t be published until the third or fourth draft. It would be even better if you could get someone else to proofread your work. That person will probably catch mistakes that you can’t see.
 
9. Spend at least one semester studying abroad.
 
This is an idea that is becoming more and more realistic in our day and age. At our University, opportunities to study abroad are growing each year. We also offer short-term mission opportunities to other countries. There are so many ways for students to experience other cultures.
 
Our world is becoming more globally focused. In some ways it’s shrinking. Companies are branching out across national boundaries. Any type of experience you can have outside of your home country will benefit you in your career and perspective on life. If you can get somewhere…go for it. You are young and you don’t have many of the responsibilities yet that could tie you down to your local geographical area.
 
I understand that some of you may have difficulty (financially or otherwise) getting out of your country. If that’s the case, find ways to learn about other cultures (watch the National Geographic Channel). But nothing beats actually going there and walking on foreign soil and being immersed in another culture.

 

10. Keep growing

 

It may seem obvious to you that you would be growing since you’re in college. But I meet a lot of college students who gain knowledge, but don’t gain growth. I guess I’m talking about maturity. There are many experiences that you’ll have in college that can help you to grow up if you’ll let them.

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Se motiver: comment ça fonctionne?

Se motiver : comment ça fonctionne ?  

 

Par Jean-François MICHEL

 

Site: www.apprendreaapprendre.com

 

Livre de Jean- François MICHEL, Blog d'Antoinette Champclos

 

 

Comment s’auto-motiver ? Est-ce que tout le monde répond à un même schéma de motivation ? Quelles applications pour l’école ?

 

Rien de plus simple de se motiver quand quelque chose nous plait. Mais il y a forcement des moments où il y ra des tâches à accomplir dont on se passerait bien ! C’est surtout le cas lorsque l’on est en formation ou à l’école: il y aura toujours une matière que l’on apprécie pas, des devoirs que l’on aimerait pas faire. Enfin que dire des périodes de révision avant les examens ? Dans ces cas là savoir se motiver, autrement dit, s’auto-motiver devient un atout, un facteur de réussite clef ! Alors comment s’y prendre ?

 

• La motivation par l’anxiété

 

 

Il y a d’abord un schéma de motivation basé sur l’anxiété. En d’autres termes, c’est la peur d’un événement futur (à éviter) qui est l’élément déclencheur de l’action (se mettre au travail): cela peut être la peur de rater un examen, la peur d’avoir une mauvaise note. Dans ce cas précis, la motivation se déclenche dans un processus de surenchère : le sentiment désagréable (douleur) de ce qui pourrait arriver si les choses ne sont pas faites (devoir, révisions etc.) est supérieur au désagrément de faire la tâche en question.

 

 

Bref, c’est ce qui provoque le sentiment de douleur le plus fort (ici entre rater un examen et faire une chose que l’on aime pas) qui l’emporte. C’est souvent l’évitement de l’échec en quelque sorte, qui est l’élément de motivation. D’où souvent l’intérêt, pour obtenir un changement de comportement, de dramatiser les choses. C’est ce que font, plus ou moins inconsciemment, les enseignants, les parents pour mettre au travail leurs élèves ou leurs enfants.

 

 

• Chacun a son propre schéma de motivation

 

Mais attention ! Tout le monde n’a pas un schéma de motivation basé sur l’anxiété : brandir le spectre de la catastrophe, pour motiver quelqu’un, ne marche pas à tous les coups et peut avoir même un effet contraire à celui recherché et mener à une forme de paralysie dans l’action. Pourquoi ? Par ce que chez d’autres individus la motivation fonctionne autrement. Bref, chacun a plus ou moins son propre schéma de motivation.

 

 

• Les 7 profils d’apprentissage

 

 

Comment faire pour repérer les personnes dont la motivation répond au schéma de l’anxiété ? Ici, l’utilisation des 7 profils d’apprentissage s’avère particulièrement utile, plus particulièrement si on considère, dans ce cas précis, les profils d’identité. Par exemple, les personnes d’un profil « dynamique » répondent très souvent à ce schéma de motivation par l’anxiété (par la peur de l’échec ou la peur de ne pas être premier pour ceux qui ont un esprit de compétition particulièrement aiguisé).

 

 

Si les personnes d’un profil d’identité « perfectionniste » fonctionnent sur ce même schéma de motivation, l’origine de l’anxiété est un peu différente : ils seront motivés à faire des efforts, outre pour éviter un échec mais surtout pour ne pas subir les critiques des autres d’autant plus s’il s’agit de critiques qui proviennent des parents ou des professeurs.

 

 

• La motivation par l’attente d’un sentiment agréable

 

 

Il y existe un schéma de motivation qui fonctionne de manière opposée à celui que nous venons de voir. Ici c’est la perspective d’un sentiment agréable, et non plus la peur, qui est motivant. Ce n’est pas forcement l’éventualité d’avoir une bonne note, de réussir un examen mais tout simplement le sentiment agréable d’avoir achevé la tâche, de l’avoir faite d’autant plus si celle-ci est repoussante. Les personnes qui fonctionnent ainsi  déclarent généralement «ce n’est pas agréable de faire telle chose, mais on se sent tellement bien une fois qu’elle est terminée et réglée » !

 

 

Mais que ce passe t-il lorsque la tâche est longue, comme par exemple la rédaction d’un mémoire de fin d’étude ? Car la perspective de finir le mémoire est assez éloignée dans le temps. Si le fait de le visualiser fini peut faciliter la mise au travail n’y a t-il pas le risque d’avoir à un moment donné une panne sèche si on en voit pas le bout ? Exacte !. La motivation chez ces personnes obéit à un processus de découpage: inconsciemment ce n’est pas seulement la perspective de finir le travail qui donne un sentiment agréable mais plutôt d’en finir, un morceau. Si on reste toujours dans notre exemple de la rédaction d’un mémoire, c’est le fait de réunir les informations nécessaires au commencement de la rédaction, de finir le plan, un chapitre, qui procure cette satisfaction d’avoir achevé quelque chose et qui pousse à continuer. Plus on se rapproche de la fin plus c’est motivant.

 

 

• Quels autres schémas d’auto-motivation ?

 

 

Existe t-il d’autre schéma de motivation que les deux que nous venons d’exposer ? Oui mais ils sont plus subtils à savoir qu’ils combinent l’anxiété et le sentiment agréable. Par exemple chez certaines personnes c’est l’anxiété qui pousse à se mettre au travail. Ensuite c’est le sentiment agréable de finir une tâche ou une partie du travail qui reprend le relais de la motivation.

 

 

Cela montre donc bien que finalement chacun à sa manière propre de s’auto-motiver en intégrant soit un schéma basé sur l’anxiété soit sur le plaisir ou encore avec une combinaison des deux formes.

 

 

Partie 2

 

 

Se motiver : comment ça fonctionne ? 

 

 

Comment comprendre et découvrir le fonctionnement de sa motivation ?

 

 

Alors comment découvrir sa stratégie d’auto-motivation ? Est-elle basée sur l’anxiété ? Sur le plaisir ? Ou est-elle une combinaison des deux ? Même si cela peut paraître complexe au premier abord, connaître sa stratégie de motivation est relativement facile. Voici quelques étapes à respecter :

 

 

• Etape 1 – Se remémorer un moment où la motivation était forte

 

 

Il faut d’abord de se remémorer un moment où il fallait faire une tâche, une chose pas forcement agréable mais que l’on a, malgré tout, réussit à faire. Attention, il ne s’agit pas ici de trouver les éléments extérieurs qui nous motivent, qui nous fond plaisir. Dans ce cas là réponse serait simple : les vacances , les moments passés devant la TV ou une console de jeu. L’objectif ici est de trouver comment on a réussit à se motiver pour faire quelque chose de désagréable (comme apprendre une leçon pour un devoir, etc.).

 

 

Donc posez-vous la question suivante : « quels sont les moments où j’ai particulièrement réussit à me motiver pour faire quelque chose que je n’aime pas faire ? »

 

 

Bien sûr, il se peut que la réponse ne vous vienne pas rapidement à l’esprit. Dans ce cas là laissez-vous un peu de temps. Posez-vous la question sans forcement rechercher une réponse immédiate. Votre inconscient fera le travail au cours de la journée.

 

 

• Etape 2 Analyser et décortiquer le «comment j’ai fait ?»

 

 

Une fois le ou les moments précis identifiés, la deuxième étape consiste à analyser comment on s’y est pris.

 

Pour retrouver le processus il suffit de se poser les questions suivantes :

 

Qu’est-ce qui m’a poussé à commencer à faire cette tâche ? Est-ce que cela a été :

  1.  la peur des conséquences si les choses ne sont pas faites ?
  2.  le plaisir de savoir que l’on se sentira mieux une fois que c’est fini ?
  3. Est-ce quelque chose que j’ai mentalement vue, entendue ou ressentie ?

 

Quelles sont les éléments qui m’ont permis de continuer à faire cette tâche et de ne pas m’arrêter en chemin ? Les mêmes questions reviennent

  1.  la peur des conséquences si les choses ne sont pas faites ?
  2.  le plaisir de savoir que l’on se sentira mieux une fois que c’est fini ?
  3. Est-ce quelque chose que j’ai mentalement vue, entendue ou ressentie ?

 

 

• Condition de l’exercice

 

 

Si vous n’arrivez pas à trouver les réponses immédiatement cela est tout à fait normal car ce n’est pas un exercice d’habituel. Prenez le temps de laisser votre esprit trouver la réponse exacte. N’hésitez pas à laisser du temps. Si au niveau de la concentration l’exercice vous paraît difficile, « hachez », « coupez » l’exercice en petit morceau qui demande un temps plus réduit.

 

Par exemple le premier jour répondez qu’à la question de la première étape « Qu’est-ce qui m’a poussé à commencer à faire cette tâche ? » Vous reprendrez la suite un autre jour. La réussite de tout exercice impose un état d’esprit favorable. Evitez de le faire si vous êtes fatigués par une journée de travail ou de cours.

 

 

• Utiliser les 7 profils d’apprentissage

 

 

Pour vous aider vous pouvez également utiliser les profils d’identité des 7 profils d’apprentissage. Bien entendu la première chose à connaître est votre profil d’identité. Pour cela reportez-vous aux résultats du test en ligne.
 
Livre de Jean- François MICHEL, Blog d'Antoinette Champclos

 

 

En résumé voici, pour chaque profil d’identité les tendances de motivation

Profil d’identité

1. Le dynamique – peur de l’échec
2. Le perfectionniste – peur d’être critiqué
3. L’enthousiaste – peur de la punition (être privé de liberté).
4. L’aimable – plaisir de faire les choses. Mais peur de décevoir ou de générer du conflit.
5. Le rebelle – plaisir mais peur de paraître faible ou vulnérable vis à vis des autres.
6. L’intellectuel – plaisir et peur de ne pas en savoir assez.
7. L’émotionnel – plaisir et peur d’être exclu ou abandonné ! par les autres.

 

 

• Reproduire le même schéma

 

 

Une fois que vous avez identifié avec précision votre stratégie d’auto-motivation, vous pourrez ensuite la reprendre (il n’est pas exclu que vous découvriez d’autres éléments importants à prendre en compte) pour faire le travail que vous n’aimez pas particulièrement faire : apprendre une leçon, faire un devoir, rédiger un mémoire, préparer une présentation orale etc.

 

 

Plus vous prendrez l’habitude de refaire, de reproduire votre schéma de motivation plus il sera facile de vous motiver pour une tâche rebutante au premier abord.. Savoir décrypter son schéma de motivation est un excellent moyen de se connaître et procure un avantage décisif dans les études et le milieu professionnel. Car insistons encore une fois : on ne pourra jamais trouver une situation, une tâche, un travail à effectuer, qui nous plaise à 100%. Fournir un effort régulier en toute circonstance est la clef de la réussite.

 

 

• Nous avons tous un schéma différent

 

 

Nous avons tous notre propre schéma d’auto-motivation. C’est pour cela que ce qui efficace pour nous même ne l’est pas obligatoirement pour les autres. Cette prise de conscience est importante pour les professionnels de l’enseignement et la formation. Car l’erreur commune est de penser que la façon dont on se motive (en tant que formateur ou enseignant) fonctionne de la même manière pour les élèves. Cela peut paraître évident à comprendre et pourtant, par habitude, par réflexe conditionné, cette erreur se produit bien souvent dans la pratique. Cette remarque est également vraie chez les parents vis à vis de leurs enfants.

 

Par Jean-François MICHEL

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Speed reading

Speed Reading

The Most Important Student Skill?

 
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By Howard Stephen Berg—The World’s Fastest Reader

 

Why is faster reading the most important skill you can learn?    In this article, I will give you three powerful reasons why this is true.  Let’s begin by considering the workplace.

 

How much information do you need to read each day to effectively perform your work?    Did you know that the information you need to know doubles every six months?   Intel reported losing almost one billion dollars a year because of missed or forgotten information.    How much is lost or missing information costing your company?  Faster reading when integrated with powerful learning strategies can serve as a total knowledge management solution for your company.    That is why many Fortune 500 companies have paid me thousands of dollars to teach their associates faster reading.

 

School is another place where faster reading is essential.  Did you know that 40% of high school students fail to graduate?   Did you know that 50% of students attending four year colleges, and 70% of students attending two year colleges fail to graduate?   Just think about how much time and money is invested into getting a student enrolled in a college, only to find out that they don’t read fast enough to complete their studies.  When I give seminars to parents I often tell them that my program is like a hedge fund for students.  They are investing tens of thousands, and in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars into their student’s education, and lose their entire investment because they didn’t spend a few dollars on teaching their student faster reading.

 

Finally there are the baby boomers like me.   Did you know that the Baltimore and Seattle Longitudinal studies on aging stated that reading was one of the most important things you can do as you age to keep your brain youthful.   The study was done on people who were 80 years of age or older.   They found that seniors who read had a lower onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.   My program takes a few short hours to learn, and I believe it makes reading so much fun to do that you’ll find yourself reading more books than ever before. A double win for you.  Not only will reading faster help you stay better informed as you age, it can help support healthy brain function.

 

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By Howard Stephen Berg—The World’s Fastest Reader

(The Only Individual To Have A Reading Claim Published In Guinness)

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French High Educational System: Facts and Myths

What everyone ought to know about the

French High Educational System

 

Antoinette Champclos

 

 

If you has now passed the baccalauréat or secondary studies, the time has come to look for the French High Educational System. The French educational system is one of the systemized forms of education. The higher education system of France touches the pinnacle of success. A student learning from this learning system has surely learnt a code of conduct and high quality education is promised.

 

Let me explain about the French educational system first. French educational system is divided into three levels: namely, primary education, secondary education, and last is the higher education. Degree given by this system is affiliated to Bologna Process. This system of education started at the verge on nineteenth century. Many reforms took active participation in developing this education system.

 

This education system is one of the sources of employment.  The civil servants of the state are employed for primary as well as for the secondary section. When compared with the education system of other country, French educational system has its unique features. There are hundreds of universities attached to this system providing a large number of educations to students.

 
Many of its institutions have their independent education system. Quality is the main objective of concern. The size of the classes may be small, but the faculty is constituted with one of the finest teachers. You will be glad to know that the two French universities are listed among the top universities in the world. In the list created in the Europe, four colleges are placed among the best colleges in the list of 20.

 

The fees for the French educational system for the academic are 174 Euros per year. This is for the under-graduates. In addition, for the post-graduates it is 237 € per year. Few additions may also be done depending on your need.

 

There are students’ restaurants, they can subsidize for the service, and residence is available for students. They are comparatively cheap. If you are not aspiring for the residential facility, you can board the bus. Bus passes are issued to the students and are somewhat of low cost.

 

Many of the places are granted discounts, so the students can get better fares. French educational system is lenient for students who cannot afford the fees. For them, the fee is reduced to moderate amounts. An exemption of + 4370 € per year is granted. So, if you look for discount this is a great news for you!

 

A standard procedure is followed for the higher education of students in France. Traditional education involves long classroom periods, more emphasis is given to the books and learning workshop. All possible guidance is provided. Creativity and research are not of much attention as the time taken to learning the things is more. So probably, research work is not given so gravity.

 

A university of France constitutes 82 states universities including five catholic universities. State university could not be developed due to some of the factors like; large work of state in administration purposes and development and the second is less capital, which restricted the development of state universities.

 

The pattern of giving a degree of French educational system is unique. It depends on the type of the course and its duration. Students who have completed 3 years of education is given License, student who finishes five years of education is given the masters degree, and scholar who are educated for continuing for eight years are given the Doctorate degree.

 

The administration of the universities is done through the local body named as “Rectorat”. A Vice Chancellor is elected; there is a board of Conseil d’Administration – CA, supervising all the functions of the universities. All the representative of the teaching staff constitutes the board.

 

If you are concerned about the grading system, it is done from 0 to 20. The 10 grade means pass marks. Pass mark defines the student of the average level. Student securing, marks between 10 and 11.9, are at the first level of degree. The French educational system is an excellent example of a systematic and organized educational system.

 

So, if you have made your mind to join the French high educational system this is surely a right decision for you!

 

Antoinette Champclos

Author of the Book “La méthode infaillible pour réussir vos études

Author and Founder of

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The Best way to Learn French in France

Beginners tips to go from ZERO to Fluent French Fast!

 

Antoinette Champclos

 

Learning anything from experts is always an enriching experience for any student. Similarly, learning French in France is certainly the best way especially when you start from zero level, as well as if you go for the advanced level of the language.

 

Although French learning anywhere in the world is not a significant deal, the only way to master the language is to learn where it is natively spoken. For example, if you learn french in France then only you can get the chance to speak it all the time with the native people otherwise in other countries you will be left with the only option, to speak or learn French in your home.

 

The practical knowledge of anything is always needed along with the theoretical information. French-speaking people would certainly allow you to learn the best of French words because you would get the opportunity to meet people in your daily routine while going to work, in the market, at restaurants etc; and while talking to local people in France, your French-speaking skills would be honed.

 

learn french in France and you would certainly gain knowledge about the classic French words. For deeper knowledge, you may also visit a French suburb to gather some of the commonly spoken French idioms. However, here are some easy ways to get the improvement in French learning:

 

Joining a French Learning school is the best way of Learning French in France. Learning French through a reputed language learning school for gaining knowledge about the native language is the best option. Nice, Paris and Lyon are known to be the best places to learn french in France.

 

These places showcase the cultural heritage as well as the modernism of this beautiful country. Therefore, one can get the best language knowledge from these places along with information about the French living.

 

learn french in France through a French Tutor is also a nice idea and if you are going to stay in France for a longer period of time, then you may hire a local teacher for learning the native language. Maybe it is costlier than any other option, but it would allow you to get the personal style while learning the language. The instructor may also help you by accompanying at the local places until you are able to communicate without help.

 

Another way is to visit the places in France. The more you visit the local areas and French commune; you will be able to learn the French language with in no time. As already told, Nice, Paris and Lyon are the best places for such visits. Nice is the ultimate gateway for the nature lovers who want to learn the language within the serene view of the place.

 

 

The beautiful landscapes and the typical French life existing there would surely absorb the basic knowledge of language in your heart and mind. You may also join an ESL learning school in Nice. Similarly, for the modernized version of learning French language, you may visit Lyon that would provide an urbanized view of the country, as well as the language. French learning schools are in abundance in Lyon.

 

 

Making more friends in France is definitely helpful, as French friends will make you learn the native language within remarkably less time. Interact with them in French and try to correct yourself under their guidance. More you speak in French, the more you will find yourself well versed in the language. Go with them for outings and play some language games in order to gain more command over the French language.

 

 

With all these tips, you would learn french with in no time. In addition, you can add French to your resume as a second language, and this will certainly enhance your professional career, as French is spoken in almost five continents and considered second most spoken European language.

 

 

Antoinette Champclos

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Côte d’Azur – A Great Choice to Study in France

Studying in the Côte d’ Azur:

A Great Choice for all students

 

Antoinette Champclos

 

 

 

If you look forward to study in France, then studying in the Côte d’ Azur can be one of the best choices. Nice is famous for the mild Mediterranean climate receiving 300 sunny days in a year and long stretch of sand beaches. The place is also famous for beautiful landscapes and richness of flora.
Studying in Cote d’Azur is an enjoyable experience as this French language school proffers enriched learning of French language in the heart of French culture. Provence In France is the place where the school is located and the Mediterranean climate of Provence makes the studies more enjoyable.

 

The striking feature of the school is its method of studying along with the local French families, who act as host to the students. Usually the program has an itinerary that includes an abroad setting in Nice, France; where the teachers escort students.

 

 

All the days of this educational trip are full of gaining knowledge and sharing the valuable information with each other. The teachers give lessons to the students during early hours of the day so that students can explore the nice surroundings in afternoon. Nice is a truly beautiful place with French natural beauty.

 

 

Expediting the place offers a strong sense of French culture and heritage. Students continue to learn different facts about French tradition and even get an opportunity to learn some of the best and widely spoken French phrases. The evenings are quite fun-filled with some leisure activities and interaction with local families of Nice.  Spending time with the local host families is indeed an excellent opportunity to know about their traditions and the way of living.

 

 

Every year more than 2 million of students reach France for the studying purposes of which thousands of students are enrolled in the University of Nice (Institut Universitaire de Technologie). This Several industrial and foreign universities are involved in the business partnership with the University of Nice.

 

The study abroad session of foreign students also includes some visits to the cultural attractions of Nice. Various concert halls, cinemas, theatres, and opera houses comprise the bunch of enlightening places of Nice. This heritage is the main reason behind the choice of University of Nice to make Nice the perfectly studying destination for its students. 

 

 

Studying in Cote d’Azur, however, is a costly affair with comparison to other French regions; but if you want to be near Mediterranean and combine your studies with vacations, then Côte d’Azur would be the best choice for you to study. If you are interested to study in the University of Nice, I invite you to visit their site: unice.fr

 

Like teachers, if students also choose to stay in hotels or campus in Nice; then the University can make arrangements. There are different kinds of rooms available in the region depending upon the requirement of the student. From single room to rooms for 2-5 people are easily available in Nice. Prior bookings can be done for convenient stay.

 

With all these benefits and knowledgeable studying experience, you would certainly achieve all the advantages of learning French language and studying in France.

 

Antoinette Champclos

http://howtostudyinfrance.com

 

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