Angela Morra: Vibrant and motivating

Year: 2020 — Province: Québec
Certificate of Achievement Recipient

Grade 9 (French and history)
Collège Charles-Lemoyne, Longueuil–Saint-Lambert campus
Longueuil, Québec

Angela Morra is an exemplary teacher whose strategies and tools, and innovative teaching methods foster support, student success and skills development.

special education technician

In addition to her great qualities as a teacher, Angela Morra is an individual of tremendous humanity, always joyful and possessing extraordinary intellectual sensitivity and kindness.  She is inherently positive and dynamic, exuding a sensible calmness that allows her to create a learning-friendly environment.

Pedagogical approach

Angela chose to work with students in the Programme d'éducation avec appui pédagogique (PEA) [tr. educational support program] targeting youngsters with learning problems or learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADD, etc.). She works very closely with various professionals to create individual education plans. This pedagogical differentiation allows her students to learn at their own pace and develop independence.  

In class

  • Students in the PEA program need a lot of organization. Angela uses Showbie on a tablet and the school's portal where she uploads on-line tools that help the parents and students in their work at school and at home.
  • To support her students with dyslexia and dysorthographia in learning to read, she encourages them to use WordQ, Antidote and Lexibar.
  • Angela stays up-to-date on techno-pedagogical developments in order to adjust her learning and evaluation tools, allowing her students the maximum benefit of digital culture. 
  • In her history courses, she uses the application Inspiration to teach her students to organize their studies, to diagram and to see the connections between the concepts of a given topic.

Outstanding achievements

  • Angela started a project with students in northern Italy: her students accordingly developed educational capsules to describe Quebec and teach some words of French to the Italian students.
  • She created a "survival kit" that catalogues various documents recommending a variety of strategies for improving the reading of the students in the PEA program.
  • Angela sticks icons on each of her students' desks to remind them as well as the other teachers in the class of the adaptations recommended by the specialists to help each of these students succeed.
  • She developed a math problem-solving procedure that included reading strategies that she saw in French; the tool is used by her colleagues but also by parents who occasionally have trouble supporting their children.

Contact us!

Collège Charles-Lemoyne,
campus Longueuil–Saint-Lambert
901, ch. Tiffin
Longueuil, QC  J4P 3G6

514-875-0505
college@cclemoyne.edu
http://monccl.com/college/
https://fr-fr.facebook.com/collegecharleslemoyne/