The Entrepreneurial Classroom of the IES Juan Carlos I of Murcia, awarded by the Ministry, has been in operation for two years
Sitting on a beanbag to be more creative is not something limited to the top executives of companies like Google, but has also been accessible for two years for students of the IES Juan Carlos I of Murcia. Specifically, in its award-winning Entrepreneurial Classroom-Soft Skills. It is a room of the institute aimed at developing the so-called ‘soft skills’ in students. That is to say: leadership, problem solving, creativity … This project, which received an Educational Innovation award from the Ministry for the 2019-2020 academic year, was publicly presented yesterday. Its objective is “to give our students the necessary tools to face the professions of the future”, in the words of Ana María Gálvez, a teacher at the center and one of the main promoters of the initiative.
The prospect of a future “that will require constant adaptations” is reason enough to change the methodology of classical teaching. This is why the very conception of the room is different from the rest: the chairs are distributed in groups and around work tables, the poufs reign in the so-called ‘creative area’ and the blackboards can be used by the students to aim. your doubts. Furthermore, all available media are fully digitized. The concept is so different that even schoolchildren choose where to sit.
Thus, the skills that they acquire today in economics class may tomorrow be useful for making decisions on an important business project.
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