Baptiste Delvallé
www.theglobalteacher.blogspot.com — baptiste@delvalle.fr — (0033) 9 86 60 81 70
EDUCATION
College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (USA)
Master of Education (teaching and curriculum), awarded September 7th, 2013
Willamette University, Salem, OR (USA)
ISEP year, exchange student, August 2011 - May 2012
Université Charles de Gaulle Lille 3, Lille (France)
Bachelor of Arts in English Languages Arts, Linguistics, Social Studies, June 2012
TEACHING LICENSE
Oregon Teaching License in French, ESOL, and Social Studies, middle and high school strand,
awarded July 3rd, 2013
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Bordeaux International School, Bordeaux (France) –– September 2017 - present
- Teaching upper middle school English immersion geography, and high school French & English support
- Guiding teenagers in the acquisition of inter-social and study skills
The Hands-On Language Program, Burlington, VT (USA) –– November 2016 - present
- Founder, owner, and lead teacher of the program. Doing all tasks from promotion to web design, from curriculum design to teaching French immersion classes, camps, and trips
[see www.thehandsonlanguageprogram.com for more details]
Lawrence S. Ting School, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — July 2014 - June 2016
- Taught 6th and 7th grade immersion-style ESOL, designed and implemented lessons, collaborated with schools around the world through the Global Partners Junior program (gpjunior.tiged.org), and Saigon South International School on some art projects, and many other tasks
Summer Enrichment Program (summer camp), Eugene, OR (USA) — July 2013
- Designed and taught a "French through cooking" unit in which TAG (Talented And Gifted) students learned French while cooking recipes from 6 Francophone regions of the world in a language immersion environment
Monroe Middle School, Eugene, OR (USA) — April 2013 - June 2013
Student Teacher in French
- Designed a unit on food and cooking in France for students to be exposed to the French culture while being immersed in the language, and a unit of group projects on French around the world for students to learn about as many French speaking countries as possible and be exposed to different dialects of French
South Eugene International High School, Eugene, OR (USA) — January 2013 - March 2013
Teaching Practicum in IB History in French Immersion
- Designed and taught a unit on India from antiquity to decolonization so students understood the diversity of cultures that influence today's India. Organized skype a conversation with a Hindu temple in France so that students practiced French with someone outside of school and realized the evolution of Hinduism today
Willamette University Saturday Exploration Program — October 2011 and February 2012
Extra-Curricular French Teacher
- Taught a month-long course on weekends that taught middle schoolers some basics of conversational French and made them want to take French in school
Normandale French Immersion Elementary School — September 2009 - June 2010
First and Third Grade Teacher Intern
- Designed and led math games in French
- Led reading and vocabulary group sessions
- Designed, advertised, and taught after-school French baking classes in French, which exposed students to another aspect of the French culture, to other lexical fields, and to authentic language outside of class
École de Bamé, via La Guilde Européenne du Raid, Benin (Africa) — August 2008
Volunteer English Teacher
- Designed and taught a one-month long summer course that reinforced students' exposure to foreign languages and their command of basic conversational English
Different households, France, Australia, and USA — September 2007 - April 2014
Private tutor in English and French
- Design ways that help a French immersion student make better sense of her homework
- Designed and taught lessons that made students fluent in all language skills
- Designed and used pronunciation activities that helped a student improve her pronunciation of French vowels
VOLUNTEER AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
French storytelling in the park, Eugene, OR (USA)
- Designed and taught a week-long storytelling in French club for French immersion students from Charlemagne Elementary School
Leader of Edison Elementary School French Club, Eugene, OR (USA) — September 2012 - March 2013
- Designed and taught a two-trimester extra-curricular course that taught basic French skills to elementary school students
- Kept a blog to maintain communication with the parents
Tutor at Chemawa Indian School, Salem, OR (USA) — September 2011 - December 2011
- Helped failing students with their homework and valued their lives and cultures to put them back on track
Member of the American Club of Lille, Lille (France) — September 2010 - July 2011
- Helped organize a USA day on social entrepreneurship at EDHEC by orienting guest speakers and the visiting students of the American School of Paris, and by encouraging questions during the conference
- Helped with the logistics of a conference on Obama's presidency with the Chamber of Commerce of Lille
Volunteer at La Guilde Européenne du Raid in Bamé, Benin (Africa) — August 2008
- Taught English in a summer school to give students basic communication skills in English
- Animated game sessions to entertain the village kids in the afternoon
- Held a conference on STDs to make villagers aware of the risks and of how to avoid them
WORKSHOPS RECENTLY ATTENDED & ORGANIZED
- Conference series by L’Académie de la non-violence, Bordeaux, 2018 (attendant)
- Burlington area first WWW for world language teachers, June 10th, 2017 (organizer)
- "The Positive Schools Conference", at UWCSEA, Singapore —November 6th & 7th, 2015 (attendant)
- "Education for a sustainable future”, by EARCOS at UWCSEA, Singapore—Nov.21st&22nd, 2015 (attendant)
PUBLICATIONS
- “Why I give students only one chance on tests” in Education Week (https://tinyurl.com/edweekdelvalle)
- Blog of Innov’Action Pédagogique
ALSO THE FOUNDER OF
- Accompagnement Pédagogique, a coaching service to broaden the methods used by schools and teachers (www.accompagnementpedagogique.com)
- Innov’Action Pédagogique, an association to push for innovation in education in France (www.innovactionpedagogique.com)