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The diverse, multicultural and unique community of 张百乔女友裸照 is a place where barriers come down, where students from different backgrounds sit next to each other and where the value of well-being for all is promoted. Even teachers of French and English are coming together at Dawson!

Dawson teachers Carmen-Silvia Cristea (Faculty, French) and Jeff Gandell (Faculty, English) met through Writing in the Disciplines (WID), a Dawson community of practice focused on pedagogy and curriculum development related to writing, critical thinking and active learning.

鈥淲e really connected on teaching literature in a creative way,鈥� Jeff said in an interview with Dawson鈥檚 Communications Office.

Positive response to Law 14
As a response to Law 14 (also known as Bill 96), Carmen and Jeff co-created a learning community and piloted their project in the Winter 2024 semester. 鈥淭here was a lot of fear and anxiety, and I thought, how can we take this and turn it into something positive?鈥� Jeff recalled. It seemed natural to work with Carmen since they had already worked together on a project for WID.

The original idea was to team teach a bilingual course but that was not possible, so they adapted their idea to teach an English course and a French course in the same time block. Both classes met twice a week and on one of those occasions, they would gather to do a common learning activity. Jeff teaches a Literary Themes course entitled Voices Across Contemporary Quebecois Literature and Carmen teaches an Introduction 脿 la litt茅rature course entitled Voix crois茅es dans la litt茅rature qu茅b茅coise contemporaine.

Defining Quebecois literature
Each teacher taught the same two Quebec novels and short stories, one class in English and one in French. 鈥淲e are giving the students an opportunity to create their own definition of what Quebecois literature means by being exposed to multiple perspectives,鈥� Carmen said in an interview with the Communications Office.

鈥淚t’s essentially the same content, the same course, but I’m teaching the texts in English and she’s teaching the texts in French,鈥� Jeff said. 鈥淲e try to create a community within our classes and then there’s this kind of bigger community where the students can do activities, discuss the texts, discuss similarities between the English and the French versions. It’s like a comparative literature class in a way where they’re looking at the same text, but from two different languages.鈥�

Considering nuances
An example of the kind of activities they do is when they asked the students to read a short story in English and in French. 鈥淲e took excerpts of the stories and put them side by side and asked the students to look for words, phrases or idioms that have a different connotation in each language. That was a really successful activity. In literature classes, it’s something I’m always trying to get students to do: consider nuances in language. It’s not necessarily something that comes naturally to them or that they find easy to do. This exercise made it much more obvious to everybody. It got the students to think about literature on the language level.鈥�

The Quebecois literature learning community was a great experience for the two teachers and their students. 鈥淚 hoped that students would gain an appreciation of the uniqueness and complexity of where we live,鈥� he said.

Extraordinary collaboration
鈥淲e explored new approaches together,鈥� Carmen said. 鈥淪omething truly extraordinary takes place in the collaboration. We are stepping outside our comfort zones, pushing the boundaries of our teaching approaches and constantly inspiring each other to be bold, innovative and creative.鈥�

As a teacher, it was special to be able to bounce ideas off another teacher and to plan their courses together. 鈥淚t made me see my job differently,鈥� Jeff said. 鈥淚 approached class in a different way and was inspired by Carmen.鈥�

Now Carmen and Jeff are looking forward to teaming up again for courses at the same time block this Fall 2025 semester. As it turns out, they both began teaching at Dawson in 2009 and they have both taught a variety of students in Montreal and in different parts of the world.

Carmen really likes teaching at Dawson: 鈥淭he students are altruistic, sensitive to others. They are preoccupied with today鈥檚 social and environmental challenges. They are engaged and motivated. If you give them the chance to express themselves, they can surprise you with how much they have to say.鈥�

Greater understanding
Carmen hopes that through literature 鈭� and the dialogues it stimulates with authors, classmates, and teachers 鈭� students will find something that will help them better understand themselves and others and give them tools to deal with the challenges of society and everyday life.

Jeff likes to keep things interesting for himself and his students by changing things up regularly. 鈥淚 like to try new things because they never work perfectly and there is always something to improve. When I change the readings, we are all learning at the same time.鈥�

Jeff is a graduate of Dawson and says it was the best two years of school. As a teacher, he appreciates the 鈥渋ncredible amount of support for innovation and innovative teaching.鈥�

The open-mindedness of the Dawson community and the commitment to innovation are what make Dawson 鈥渁 destination school.鈥�