Jean-Pierre Lagueux & Christian Lagueux

Year: 2008 – Province: Quebec

Certificate of Excellence Recipients

School: Polyvalente Bélanger
30-A chemin de la Polyvalente
Saint-Martin, Quebec
G0M 1B0

Principal: Stéphane Quirion
School Telephone: 418-382-5581
School Fax: 418-382-3706
School Email: scott.wouters@lpsd.ca
School Website: www.csbe.qc.ca/belanger

School: Polyvalente de Saint-Georges
2121 119^e Rue Est
Saint-Georges, Quebec
G5Y 5S1

Principal: Germain Ouellet
School Telephone: 418-228-8964
School Fax: 418-226-2598
School Email: scott.wouters@lpsd.ca
School Website: http://psg.csbe.qc.ca
Subjects and Grades Taught: History of Quebec and Canada in Secondary 4

Teaching Approach

• Help students to take charge of their learning, using information and communications technologies as a living tool rather than an end in themselves.
• Propose concrete, universally applicable projects that not only engage the students' intellectual and analytical skills, but also call for them to use manual dexterity, historical knowledge and imagination.
• Diversify their students' learning by promoting partnerships with the community.

Outstanding Achievements

• As part of the activity entitled "Reproduction d'un objet historique datant de la period de la Nouvelle-France", students make a representative object from their ancestors' lives during the New France era with their own hands and then exhibit their work. Over the years, this activity has become a real "happening" at the local, national and international levels.
• These two teachers introduce their students to archaeology by having them participate directly in archeological digs in Tunisia via a website and satellite telephone.
• The Lagueux brothers' work has won them numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History (2004), the Prix national Essor awarded by the ministère de la Culture du Québec (2006) and the Médaille d'argent de l'Ordre du Mérite awarded by the Fédération des commissions scolaires du Québec (2007).
• The Lagueux duo originated the civic project "Gouvernement scolaire" whose aim is to reorganize the school's student council to take the form of a parliament. This gives the students who are elected an opportunity to develop skills that relate to the practice of democracy and citizenship. The National Assembly of Quebec modeled its "Parlements au secondaire" project on this concept, and it now sponsors that activity and offers it in all schools in Quebec.

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