L’absence de notes au primaire existe en France pour les riches – en école privée.
Ex. École de Crolly.

Débat pourri.

A school which doesn’t have teachers or exams was launched in Angers in October 2009. It is the first French school with 3 year program which uses methodologies coming from Finland, from entrepreneurial unit of Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences.

This unit in Finland, called Team Academy, was created in 1993 and has grown into an international learning environment offering a new way to learn for both youth and adults.

Team Academy has won numerous national awards for its innovative entrepreneurship creating methods and tools. Team Academy’s methods are used in many schools and organizations in Finland and abroad (for example in France, Holland, Basque Country, England, and Brazil…) to promote entrepreneurial growth and team-learning.

So, our school in Angers, called Team Entrepreneur, has two significant differences compared to more traditional schools. 1) Learning is collective; students are learning in teams, whereas in traditional school it is more individual, and 2) students are learning by doing and applying theories into action, so there are no lessons in auditorium.

We do not have exams as we follow students’ daily work. Results from real life projects and feedback from clients show students development and understanding of different theories. We do have two evaluation sessions, one before Christmas and one before summer. During these sessions we go through collective and individual evaluation. Individual evaluation is concentrating on competencies needed in management, entrepreneurship and real work life and students are evaluated by themselves, by other students, by coaches and by their clients.

Teachers are replaced by French and Finnish coaches who are familiar with collective learning methods. Coaches are guiding the process, but not by telling what to do. It is students’ challenge to solve different problems together with their team, we do not offer short cuts for them.

Our goal is to create team entrepreneurs, new generation managers and develop and strenghten local territories.