The Minister of Education and Universities of the Government of the Canary Islands, Soledad Monzón, visited this Friday the Center for Compulsory Education (CEO) Ignacio Aldecoa, the only educational center in La Graciosa, which houses around 60 students from Infant to Secondary.
The regional Executive highlights that "collaborative work, languages, and respect for sustainability and natural resources are the main pillars that guide the didactic activity" in this center.
In this sense, it is emphasized that "it has been committed in recent years to promoting environmental education through different projects that actively involve students in research on the environment." Among them, its adhesion stands out, as a pilot center, to the Calima project, an initiative that from next year will allow students to take measurements of this meteorological phenomenon using professional solar photometers.
For the development of this research project, which is part of the initiatives of the GLOBE Network, the teachers of the fourteen Canary Islands centers in which the measure will be piloted have already received specific training this year for the use of scientific devices and the remote sensing technique of solar photometry, the same one used by international professional observation networks and the instruments on board satellites.
Bilingual education
In addition to its participation in environmental projects, the CEO of La Graciosa works to promote foreign languages in its classrooms, with the implementation of bilingual education in Natural Sciences in Primary and Mathematics in Secondary.
The Minister of Education and Universities of the Government of the Canary Islands, Soledad Monzón, visited the center's facilities, together with the management team and the teaching staff, a visit in which the head of Education also participated, together with the entire educational community of the center, in the celebration of the last day of the 2017/2018 academic year, a day in which didactic theater, with the students of the center as protagonists, was the common thread.
Monzón highlights the center's commitment "to promoting student talent"
Soledad Monzón, who visited the CEO together with the Minister of Education of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Carmen Rosa Márquez, the local mayor of La Graciosa, Alicia Páez, the Councilor for Education of the Teguise City Council, Javier Díaz Gil, and the island director of Education in Lanzarote, Mario Pérez, congratulated the work of the teaching staff and emphasized the center's commitment to "promoting student talent", with a dynamic methodological approach that was evident in the performances of this celebration. The head of Education also thanked the "implication and commitment" of the families, who accompanied the day together with all the teaching staff, and pointed out that there are many "good references about the center, for its closeness and its good work".
The performances of the day included representations in which aspects of biology and natural sciences were addressed, such as the organs of the human body and healthy eating, and different samples of rhythmic gymnastics and dance.
It is part of the network of Educational Centers for Sustainability
The CEO Ignacio Aldecoa has been part, for four years, of the network of Educational Centers for Sustainability (redECOS), in which 201 centers participate, and of the network of Ecological School Gardens, to which 254 educational centers in the Canary Islands have already joined.
In addition, in recent years it has reinforced its involvement with scientific education programs linked to natural conservation. Thus, the CEO was part of the II Congress of the GLOBE Network, held earlier this month in Tenerife, where it presented its own scientific poster. The works of the GLOBE network start from research on environmental matters in the environment, studies for which students take data from measurements of different parameters such as atmosphere, hydrology or biology.
