L’aide individualisée dans un collège RAR : présentation et analyse critique

Personalized help lies at the core of the main plans of action set up by secondary schools which are members of Réseaux Ambition Réussite (RAR) networks. These networks were created in 2006 with the aim to improve the academic performances of pupils schooled in these areas of teaching excellence. Following a presentation of the general framework and of the teaching conceptions that presided over the implementation of RAR networks, the author describes and analyzes the various actions set up in a secondary school belonging to a RAR network. To back up his work, he uses interviews carried out with teachers of a class of 6ème, with RAR referring teachers, and with teaching assistants. The main questions that are raised concern the compatibility between the personalized treatment of academic difficulties and the didactic logic of collective class teaching, the assessment of the actions set up and their effective role, and the ambiguous nature of these plans. All this actually relates to the central question which any teacher has to face, that is the wide range of academic performances in a class.