Disciplinary Competencies
Arts: The Arts department develops both curricular and extracurricular activities. It includes Music, Theater, Visual Arts, and Dance in the Exploratory, Conceptual, and Contextual cycles. At the extracurricular level, it offers spaces for dance, music, and theater for students in the Contextual and Projective cycles. The arts constitute an important dimension through which students develop their comprehensive development. Its two main areas of work are artistic expression and appreciation, which are a constant in all subjects and extracurricular activities.
Natural Sciences: The purpose of the Natural Sciences department is to enable students to acquire a scientific and technological culture to approach an understanding of the complexity and comprehensiveness of contemporary reality, thus acquiring skills to navigate life, regardless of their field of activity.
As in all areas, this one incorporates development over learning as a general objective, while simultaneously starting from the need to transcend and relate concepts and categories to life in order to achieve meaningful learning. The area of Natural Sciences and Technology conceives the relationship between science and technology as a complex one, incorporates society, and expands the role of technology beyond the application or dissemination of scientific knowledge. It also asserts the central role of context in scientific and technological developments and adopts the development and appropriation of scientific language as a cross-cutting theme.
Social Sciences: The area of Social Sciences aims to generate integrated development in students through mediation in the development of individuals who recognize themselves as plural, autonomous, and social, aware of their history, their changes and permanence, their relationships with others and with the world, and who, thus, can think, feel, and act as citizens. To achieve this goal, the curriculum includes tools or notions, concepts, and categories specific to the Social Sciences and intellectual operations appropriate to the developmental stage or cycle in which the student finds himself or herself.
Physical Education: The Physical Education area has been structured based on the need for comprehensive student development. Consequently, it includes the learning and analysis of sports strategies (which allows for a broader appreciation of sports), as well as the practice of athletics, dance, and other sports. Extracurricularly, students in the Conceptual, Contextual, and Projective cycles participate in volleyball, soccer, basketball, Olympic gymnastics, and dance teams.
Mathematics: The Mathematics area aims to contribute to the development of students' thinking skills to determine facts, establish relationships, deduce consequences, and, ultimately, enhance reasoning and the capacity for symbolic action, critical thinking, a tendency toward exhaustiveness, nonconformity, curiosity, persistence, incredulity, autonomy, rigor, imagination, creativity, systematicity, etc.
At the same time, it aims to promote the expression, elaboration, and appreciation of patterns and regularities, as well as their combination to achieve effectiveness or beauty, as well as to stimulate cooperative work, the exercise of criticism, participation and collaboration, the discussion and defense of one's own ideas, and the ability to assume joint decision-making; the potential to develop scientific work and to search for, identify, and solve problems.