Middle School at Cumbres International School México

In middle school, students increasingly become the protagonists of their own learning. We respect their pace, maturity, and development, and we help them give personal meaning to what they learn, connecting it with their interests, experiences, and needs. To make this possible, the teacher acts as a guide and mediator of the process, applying CAR methodologies (cooperative, active, and reflective), using educational technology tools, and emphasizing interdisciplinary work.

We support our students in building an authentic, mature, and healthy personality that allows them to walk, more fully and in keeping with their dignity, the path toward their own self-realization and transcendence.

We foster in students a Christian leadership of service so they can respond to the needs of others as citizens committed to themselves, their family, their community, and the world.

We want students to use technology effectively and efficiently as a tool to increase their productivity, develop their creativity, communicate ideas, and learn collaboratively, without forgetting the responsibility that its use entails.
Through educational technology, robotics, and the STEAM methodology (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math), we encourage students to see it:

• As a useful and necessary resource for learning.

• As a means to develop digital competencies.

• To lay the technological foundations for the next educational levels.

In middle school, students expand their vocabulary and learn the correct use of English at a high level, beyond the merely functional. This is achieved through reading resources used by native students in schools in English-speaking countries.

We educate at every moment, in every space and environment. Every opportunity, inside and outside the classroom, is used to carry out an educational and formative intervention. We have a variety of resources that support us in this process:

• Formative environments and spaces — flexible, interactive, and collaborative — that foster personal, meaningful, and community learning.

• Physical and digital educational materials that help enhance each student's abilities according to the expected graduate profile.

• Educational technology that supports research and the creation of content and solutions.

Through constant exposure to art and culture, students develop critical and creative thinking as well as a range of emotional skills. In addition to incorporating art and culture into various subjects, students put their skills and talents into practice and demonstrate their abilities in academies and in a variety of artistic and cultural competitions.

Middle school students take part in a range of physical and sports activities that respond to their preferences and needs and support their well-rounded development, in different contexts where they build their abilities and become aware of their decisions and actions.