Identity of the Cultural Center

 IDENTITY

Our School is a Catholic Center that the Church offers to society to promote the integral formation of its students, according to the style of VICENTA MARIA.

 

In consequence

 

ü       Educate according to the Christian concept of the person, of life, of the world.

 

ü       Offers a degree of instruction and education quality in a climate of collaboration and openness.

 

ü       A  help to develop, beside the intellectual possibilities of the student bodies, its physical qualities, its affective maturity and its social dimension.

 

ü       Foment the growth of the ethical dimension and the trancendence of the person, marked values like the family, freedom, critical sense, participation, co-existence and peace.

 

ü        Impart the religious teaching according to the orientations of the Catholic Church.

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Plan and develop catechetical processes, expression of faith and commitment, in the framework of respect, liberty and solidarity.

 

ü      Stimulate the renewed presence in the society to achieve what may be more humane and just.

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THE EDUCATIVE PROJECT fulfills the gradual and progressive realization of these objectives with the collaboration of all members of the Educative Community.

 

  RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EDUCATION

 

Our School sets itself up in the Educative Community since the task of  education requires the coordinated participation of all the persons who take part in it: Official Body, Students, Professors, Parents and the Administrative and Service Personnel. 

 

 

THE OFFICIAL BODY:  is the Congregation of the Religious of Mary Immaculate. She leads the Center, defines and maintains the principles that form the type of education, like the criteria that guarantee the fidelity to themselves.

 

THE STUDENTS: are responsible subjects of its own formation: They take active part  in the life of Christ, according to his own age.

 

THE PROFESSORS:  They are the principal educators of the students, in coherence with the character and the work of team.  They participate in the elaboration of following the Educative Project.  They take part in the administration of the School through the organs of government.

THE PARENTS OR GUARDIANS: They are first responsible for the education of their children.  They lend their support and collaboration in the task of the School, especially, through the Student Council and the Association of Parents.

ADMINISTRATION and SERVICE PERSONNEL, like the other collaborators, they make possible and more effective the educative action from their respective responsibilities.

 

PEDAGOGICAL TRAITS

Our School, faithful to the spirit of VICENTA MARIA, tries to form " good Christians and coherent citizens ".  We confront  this task with an educative style whose characteristic traits show our pedagogy.

We present Mary as a model of educators and teachings, her preference for simplicity, work and life of the family.

 

We try a personal education that accompanies each one  according to his/her needs and believes in the humane ambience that may favor the individual maturity.

 

We look preferably after the student body that finds great difficulty.

 

We opt and commit ourselves with Evangelical values that transform our life and our society.

 

We develop an active, open and flexible methodology that each moment adapts to the existing needs and that includes didactic innovations that improve the educative quality.

 

We try that each student develops to the maximum his/her capabilities and interests and to orient them in their development and maturity in a plural and interdependent society.

We plan our educative action beyond the classrooms, the school schedule, through the complementary and extracurricular activities.

ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION

The model of education that our School offers to the families and to the student body demands an attitude of collaboration coordinated for all to achieve the proposed objectives.

This  supposes that:

The efforts and the dreams of the Educative Community concur on the prior objective: the integral education of the students.                                                       

It gives preference to the common interests concerning specific matters.

The free presence and participation, responsible and generous in the organs of administration and government.

Each one assumes responsibly to his/her obligations and respect the rights and competence of the others.

 The channels which make it possible the operation of the School are:

-  THE DIRECTOR, official title, who is responsible in the operation of the School.

-  THE EXECUTIVE TEAM, asseses and shares with the Director the responsibility in the performances and decisions designed in the attainment of the objectives of the School. 

-  THE TEAM OF PROFESSORS endeavors the coherence and quality of the academic and pedagogical aspects.

-  THE STUDENT COUNCIL natural period of participation in the management that reunites different groups of the Educative Community.

-   and all organs of government that may deem appropriate.

-   THE RULES OF THE INTERIOR LIFESTYLE define and regulate the functions of the different  personal and student organs that take part in the educative process and guarantee the coordination of the members of the Educative Community.

 

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

To develop capabilities that allow the student to exercise freedom, tolerance and solidarity, in a  critical manner in our society and to take part in an autonomous way in its building.

To provide full formation that allows the student body to form his personal identity and to build a concept of the reality, that may compose of  the knowledge and the moral evaluation of itself 

To form the student in assuming responsibility that may compel him in the process of transformation in the society and in all situations of life.

PROCEDURES:

 

 

PRESENCE

We are present as an educative community in reality, we live as educators that want to be guides towards the quality of life.

 

CO-EXISTENCE

We prepare specific trips to foment liberty, tolerance, respect and solidarity with whom we live with.

  

We share moments and experiences of life and faith that help us to discover the richness of each one in the daily living.

 

 

AMBIENCE

We create an ambience of companionship where it may be possible to build, sharing out the different opinions about life, faith and the world. 

 

 

RESPONSIBILITY

To promote collaboration and participation in the different  planned activities for the year.

RESPECT

 

It may be a central theme in the contents of the teaching action with the class.

 

      The use of the educated and correct language.

        Punctuality in the schedules.

The habits of hygiene and dress, etc                                                              Use and care of own  and common material.

Knowledge and education of good manners and civic behavior.

 

SOLIDARITY

 

To educate this value:

        

We carry out gestures that may help to overcome the racial, social, cultural and religious differences.

   In a special manner, we look after students with more necessities.

  We involve ourselves in the campaigns of solidarity organized by the School,  collaborating in active manner of the same.

We discover that Jesus of Nazaret is Someone important in our lives and a friend whom to follow.

 

 ADVISERS 

They are directly responsible in the running of the class, as in the formation and progress of each student himself, and the internal relations of the group.  They detect the deficiencies and they channel the aspirations of the group.

 Their Functions

 

1.      To facilitate the integration of the students in his class and in the group of student dynamic and to foment in them participative attitudes.

 

 

2.      To contribute to the personalization of the process of teaching and apprenticeship.

 

3.      To keep up interviews with each of the student and to do a special follow-up to      those students that may have more difficulties.

 

4.     

To coordinate information concerning the students that different professors have, to coordinate the evaluation process of the student body and to advise in his promotion  from one year to another. 

 

5.     

To coordinate with the other professors of the teaching group the coherence of their own planning and the teaching practice with the Educative Project, the Curriculum plan and the annual planning of the Center.

 

6.    

To contribute to the establishment of smooth realtionships with the parents that may facilitate the connection between the School and the families.

 

7.     

To involve the parents in the supportive activities in the apprenticeship and the orientation of their children. 

 

8.    

To inform the parents of the data of those matters that may affect the education of their children.

 

9.     

To coordinate the activities in carrying out and solving the problems that may arise in the running of the group.

 

PROFESSORS

They are direct responsible in  carrying out day to day the educative action  with  the respective students.

They respond with competence, dedication and style which the students have the right in receiving an integral formation.   

They collaborate in the united pedagogical criteria with the Educative Community .

They keep up interviews with the students and their parents to inform them of the educative process of the same.

 

They propose and establish criteria of evaluation. 

 

They are updated scientifically and pedagogically  by means  of the permanent education.

 

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR 

All the students PARTICIPATE in the good running of the School and each class, in particular, try to achieve that everything may work out well.

  

 WAYS OF PARTICIPATION 

 

REPRESENTATIVE: is the democratically elected student by his classmates, he represents them with some of its own functions.

 

       SUB-REPRESENTATIVE: is the student that helps the representative and has been elected as number 2, assuming the same functions when the representative  fails.

 

 FUNCTIONS OF THE REPRESENTATIVE

 

To serve as the official link between the class and the professor-adviser; director-students.

To assume the coordination of the class

        To moderate the assembly of the class.

 

 ELECTION:

The election is carried out in each class by democratic votation of all the students. It must be done in the presence of the adviser.  The student must attend to all the modules of the cycle or subjects of the other teachings.

 

MOTIVE OF DISMISSAL

One who does not carry out his functions adequately.  Repeated failures of attendance.  Resignation for personal or derived motives of his function that he may see that he cannot assume or carry it out.

 

 

" It is preferable to light a candle

than to swear in the dark "

Chinese Proverb