InnovAcción XXI Educational Transformation Project
This project promotes the educational transformation of the six institutions that make up the Network of Ignatian Educational Units of Ecuador (RUEI-E). It began in the 2016–2017 academic year and has focused on transforming the teaching and learning process, organizational structure, internal culture, and school management.
The Person at the Center, the person is at the heart of the process. Therefore, we care for the whole being and develop three key dimensions: cognitive, socio-emotional, and religious-spiritual.
Cooperative Learning Learning is cooperative—both for students and for teachers—fostering collaboration, shared responsibility, and collective growth.
Methodology Based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences,, the methodology is grounded in the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, implemented in the classroom within the Teaching for Understanding framework.
The Four Transformations
To carry out this educational transformation, four major changes are required:
This process has demanded the commitment of the entire Educational Community, along with ongoing training for teachers and administrators. It also involves a shift in mindset among everyone—teachers, students, parents, and school leaders.
The pedagogical model enables students—even from the earliest levels—to understand the challenges around them and propose solutions. The richness of this process lies in making classroom activity visible and turning it into fertile ground for the creativity of both teachers and students. estudiantes.
In this way, Jesuit schools in general—and San Gabriel Private Educational Unit in particular—seek to initiate the evolution that our city and country so greatly need, because when education changes the person, the person transforms reality.