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The 8th Felipe Segovia Symposium brought together more than one thousand teachers from SEK International Schools –located in Spain, France, Ireland, Qatar and Saudi Arabia– and from Camilo Jose Cela University to share some of the most innovative educational experiences that were launched in their classrooms over the past year.
Eighty-six initiatives or “micro-innovations” occurring at SEK Education Group over this past year in which it celebrated its 130th anniversary were showcased at this year’s event. Most of them are related to digitization, entrepreneurship, social engagement and well-being.
Nieves Segovia, president of SEK Education Group, reminded everybody of the anniversary of the education group this year. “Our Ethos has always been the backbone of our Symposiums. It is broad enough to accommodate everything we have done in these 130 years, all of these years were important, but this year takes on a particular importance. This year we have talked about how new spaces give meaning and coherence to our educational action in light of our Global Education Forum Manifesto, which is materialized in the SEK Future Learning Model and which covers both SEK International Schools and Camilo José Cela University.”
“We must be able to reinvent this institution together over and over again, as we have done over the past 130 years. If we are talking about this, it is because we are heirs to a long-standing tradition. What we do is evolve, and we do so resolutely. Knowing that we have a solid foundation on which to grow is essential for any organisation, but for our institution it is the key to our success” the president concluded.
Conclusions of the day
SEK Education Group teachers were encouraged to continue innovating in their classrooms at the Felipe Segovia Symposium, which every year shares the latest teaching innovations and best teaching practices.
Talks part of the well-being strategic axis centred around the willingness of work groups to collaborate, design training courses and create a mixed research group with teaching staff from Camilo José Cela University and SEK schools.
Participants discussing the social impact axis agreed on the importance of the new roles of the teacher, the importance of continual teacher training around learning models, basing teaching initiatives on real cases to design learning experiences and constantly challenge themselves. “To innovate, best practices from other schools and from educational institutions at home and abroad need to be shared,” said the teachers.
Those taking part in the digitization strategic axis concluded that the ubiquity of digital technology makes the transformation of learning spaces inevitable and safety paramount, therefore “we cannot limit ourselves to four walls, students must have access to all possible learning spaces and we must provide them with the tools to be agents of change” adding to which “historical data for each learner will help to improve the adaptations that can be made in the personalisation of their learning”.
Finally, participants of the entrepreneurship transversal axis discussed collaboration, highlighting that “we must work hand in hand with companies and entrepreneurs to find out what our students need to enter the job market. We must not be afraid to fail, that is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship. Technology brings us closer and allows us to work together and collaborate to carry out work together,” they stressed.
At the end of the event, prizes were awarded for the best educational practices and tribute was paid to SEK teachers and professionals.
