As part of the global network of Jesuit Schools, we consider that learning from each other is a key component in the new challenges that we face in education. A way of responding to these new challenges is to analyze and implement new approaches and methods that can lead our schools to continue living our mission and identity in the current times. As a consequence, to promote the reflection based on our teaching experience must be an effort we all make at the educational field in order to cooperate and contribute to the enrichment of all our community by sharing as well as interacting with each other, understanding that innovation and tradition from our perspective go hand in hand.
In every Jesuit school, a way to proceed has to do with a permanent innovation inspired by Saint Ignatius life experience. As you may be able to guess, Colegio Berchmans is not the exception, not only in what refers to new perspectives in education but also in the new trends as Jesuit schools. As a result, Colegio Berchmans has been working towards innovation as a constant determination in favor of the educational service that we offer to the local community in Cali. One very important decision has been aligned to the conception of global citizenship in relation to the implementation of our own bilingual education model.
The magazine From Berchmans to the World: teachers’ reflections presents 12 experiences from teachers at our school. Through these experiences you will witness the advances in our educational proposal as a Jesuit school in the 21st century, including the main developments in our bilingual education program: Spanish-English; taking into account some aspects of what happens in the school and in the classroom. The new trends in education and the way we see them in our daily practices: collaboration, creativeness, cross-curricular learning, project based learning, active learning, interculturalism, among others.
The purpose of this magazine is to share with the educational Jesuit community some of the main findings we have discovered in the process of promoting a bilingual culture in our school. The different texts you will find within the magazine contain key elements in the ongoing innovation process our school has carried out to make our classroom practices closer to our students needs as well as to the current global reality, taking into account the development of languages, the active learning and the vision of the teachers as key agents in the process.
We are pleased to be part of the global network and to be able to participate actively with this material. We hope you find it interesting and motivating!
Link to magazine: https://berchmans.edu.co/index.php/mi-colegio/documentos/revista-teachers-reflections
