Pedagogical approach
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WE DEVELOP SKILLS TO REINVENT THE WORLD
We are in constant development, always attentive to the needs of each generation that enters our school. To this end, we constantly update our pedagogical proposal, keeping in mind the ideals of Blessed Luigi Biraghi, founder of the International Institute of the Sisters of Saint Marcellina: to care for the mind, body, and spirit of our students.
From Kindergarten through High School, we educate based on a social-interactionist approach – this means that we believe that learning occurs in relationship with others, through experience mediated by an adult. In our educational process, we want students to reflect on their education and act in society as agents of change, whether locally or globally. Above all, our main focus is the student – a person who thinks, feels, has desires, needs, expectations and challenges.
Early Childhood Education
CREATE, INVENT, AND DISCOVER
In early childhood, children develop social contact, broadening, through the school environment, their relations with others, with the world, and their learning experiences. At Santa Marcelina, we are dedicated to offering a safe and welcoming environment, so that the child feels encouraged to explore the world around him/her, elaborate his/her provisional theories and deepen his/her discoveries.
With this objective, we assure the rights to live together, play, participate, explore and express themselves through their multiple languages, knowing themselves as a cultural being.
For this reason, educators interact with children, observing what they do, how they do it, how they think, and what they think – only then to design the experiences to be lived. Respect for each person’s individuality and potential is very important in our children’s education, and we will not give that up.
Age group: 2 to 5 years old
Schedule: 7:10-11:50 am [morning] | 1-5:40 pm [afternoon][manhã] [tarde]
PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
GIVE AND TAKE
We make it possible for students to have access to different types of reading, awakening the pleasure of reading and sharpening the cognitive and creative potential of the students who, later on, have the chance to share their interpretation of what they have read.
CONCRETE GESTURES
We promote solidary actions among students that mobilize the whole educational community in order to help others and transform lives. During various periods of the year, and with the educator’s help, students work in partnership with social institutions, contributing and carrying out various activities.
Elementary School - Beginning Series
LEARNING TO LEARN
Here, we want to provide the best experience for the student in basic education and citizenship, promoting full mastery of reading, writing, and arithmetic, in addition to the strengthening of Christian attitudes and values.
We value family bonds, the bonds of human solidarity, and mutual tolerance, believing that these points sustain social life. For this reason, the child develops social and cognitive skills through theProject Learning Methodology, which enables the contextualization of the content from a transdisciplinary and collaborative perspective.
Age group: 6 to 10 years old
Schedule: 7:10-11:50 am [morning] | 1-5:40 pm [afternoon][manhã] [tarde]
PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
INITIAL SERIES
Give and Take
We make it possible for students to have access to different types of reading, awakening the pleasure of reading and sharpening the cognitive and creative potential of the students who, later on, have the chance to share their interpretation of what they have read.
Concrete Gestures
We promote solidary actions among students that mobilize the whole educational community in order to help others and transform lives. During various periods of the year, and with the educator’s help, students work in partnership with social institutions, contributing and carrying out various activities.
Elementary School - Final Series
BUILDING MEANINGFUL LEARNING
We understand that at this stage, students go through a period of important transformations – and we are dedicated to supporting our boys and girls in each of them. In the final years of elementary school, our students consolidate skills tocontinue learning throughout their lives.
We want each student, in addition to acquiring knowledge, to take ownership of values and position themselves critically when faced with life situations. To this end, we develop skills in the cognitive and socioemotional dimensions, which will serve as real tools for interpretation, judgment, action, and personal development.
In a world that demands active and creative people, capable of solving problems and acting in a critical way in an environment increasingly mediated by technology, the best choice is Santa Marcelina. After all, here, we prioritize the active and investigative role of the student, because we believe in education as a powerful resource for personal transformationand the full development of autonomy.
Age group:11 to 14 years old
Schedule: 7:10-12:40 pm [morning] [manhã]
PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FINAL SERIES
Youth Forum
Here, we enable students in the 7th and 8th grades to experience the democratic process. Based on pre-defined themes, the students participate in a day of debates, reflections, and argumentations, develop the practice of research, strengthen their social youth leadership, and build a more critical look at different realities.
Professions Day
Aimed at 9th grade and high school students. At the Journey of Professions, guest speakers from different areas provide several rounds of conversation, lectures and lots of chat to broaden the students’ knowledge about the universe of careers and professional choices.
High school
CONSISTENT TRAINING FOR A POWERFUL ADULT
In yet another stage of education, we want to enable our students to make choices and respond to the challenges of today’s society. For this, in addition to the appropriation of content for the classic exams, our students engage in “hands-on” projects, experience entrepreneurial attitudes, develop the creative process, scientific investigations and carry out socio-cultural interventions, in a relationship of construction and reconstruction of learning.
We work for our students to be successful in exams and competitions, such as ENEM and the main vestibulares of the country. But beyond this selective stage of life, our comprehensive education prepares children and young people to be happy, confident, critical and responsible citizens, who act in society mobilizing Christian principles and valuesinternalized during their educational trajectory in the Santa Marcelina Education Network.
Age group:15 to 17 years old
Schedule: 7:10-12:40 pm [morning] [manhã]
PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES
HIGH SCHOOL
SIMAR
We promote the protagonism of students and former students by bringing or simulating problems and current situations, also offering the opportunity to experience the challenges of a career in diplomacy, representing committees, and much more. On the occasion, students participate in debates, forums, and conferences that integrate, besides History, also Geography, Sociology, English, and Portuguese.
Professions Day
Aimed at 9th grade and high school students. At the Journey of Professions, guest speakers from different areas provide several rounds of conversation, lectures and lots of chat to broaden the students’ knowledge about the universe of careers and professional choices.
Approved in vestibular
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Congratulations to everyone! Let us continue with faith, enthusiasm, and commitment always!
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