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Ciclo escolar 2018-2019, núm. 3 Creativity Directory Greetings ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTORY Liz Panchuk Head of School FOUNDER Margarita Arzac HEAD OF SCHOOL Liz Panchuk EARLY CHILDHOOD & ELEMENTARY ACADEMIC PRINCIPAL Yvonne Kogan I have always wondered about the difference TODDLER CENTER PRINCIPAL Narda Vega between creativity and innovation: PRESCHOOL PRINCIPAL Stephanie López EARLY ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL Sylvia Karam UPPER ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL Creativity is thinking Pepa Pin MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL up new things. Rosamaría Díaz-Vélez SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION, OPERATION, AND PROMOTION DIRECTOR Cecilia Moreno ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCE DIRECTOR Claudia Camacho Innovation is doing OPERATIONS AND SERVICES DIRECTOR Ma. Elena Ruschke new things. ADMISSIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR Pilar Rodríguez Theodore Levitt EDITORIAL STAFF Communication and Image Department Coordinator: Alejandra Torres What does it take for a simple person to be either? Graphic Designers: Carlos A. Ramírez and Jazmín Sánchez Editors: Natalia Ramos and Gabriel Castro Is our uniqueness enough? COLLABORATORS Alejandra García Medina, Andrea Oberhauser, Cecilia Royo, Danna Macías, Dylan Brennan, Elías Villalobos, Estefanía Salazar, What most researchers agree on is that some of Fernando Díaz Ceballos, Gabriela Tamayo, Georgina de la Rosa, Gilda Cervantes, Gisela Ramírez, Ingrid Noeh, Linnea Palacios, the most important basic competencies for the Liz Panchuk, Margarita Gutiérrez, Mory Domenech, Naomi Trego, Pablo Zubieta, Paola Oliveros, Paulina Terrazas, Pilar Rodríguez, 21st century include creativity and/or innovation, Rafael Díaz Ceballos, Rosi Ibinarriaga, Sandra E. Pérez, Silvia Costello, Sofía Ortiz, and Tanya Sánchez. critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, PHOTOGRAPHY and problem solving, to face and deal with the Alejandra Torres, Andrea Oberhauser, Carlos Papaqui, Carlos Ramírez, Elías Villalobos, Georgina de la Rosa, Jazmín Sánchez, complex world we live in. Johanna Hernández, Karla Almeyda, Lara Parodi, Martha Mendoza, Mory Domenech, Naomi Trego, Silvia Costello, Sofía Ortiz, and Tanya Sánchez. Errata: Encuentro, 2018-2019, No. 2: Martha Mendoza. ETON LOMAS Early Childhood Alpes 1140 & Alpes 605, Lomas de Chapultepec, CP 11000, Ciudad de México [email protected] [email protected] Tels. 5520-1142 / 5520-0410 Preescolar SEP Acdo. #09050637, 23-08-05 ETON SANTA FE Elementary / Middle & High School D. García Ramos s/n, Santa Lucía 220, Prados de la Montaña, CP 05619, Ciudad de México [email protected] Tel. 5261-5800 Primaria SEP Acdo. #988595, 19-01-98 Secundaria SEP Acdo. #988804, 17-04-98 IBO-MYP-5397 Preparatoria UNAM Acdo. #65, 12-08-80 IBO-DIP 000855 www.eton.edu.mx Index 2 Editorial 3 From a Director’s Desk 4 Early Childhood 5 Creativity: Imagination in Action 6 Extended: Fostering Creativity through Reflection and Interpretation 8 Elementary 9 Turtles: Living Life in a Shell 10 Creatividad, investigación, entusiasmo e innovación: ingredientes básicos para un gran proyecto In our cover page: 12 Middle School Art work by 12th Grade 13 Un escritor, una novela: La guarida de las lechuzas IB Art students. 14 High School 15 Personal Project 16 CAS 17 Ciencia y arte: la tabla periódica 18 A Project that Satisfied my Expectancy 20 Creativity and Costume Design 21 APF 22 Eton Day 2019 24 Children’s Day 25 Mother’s Day 26 Teacher’s Day 27 Campers at Pipiol and Kin Camp 29 ¡Gracias! 30 Talent Show 31 A Warm Welcome 32 Cerramos un ciclo 34 A Well-Earned Retirement 35 Alumni 36 12th Grade Farewell 37 Class of 2019 Vision Mission Eton School is a progressive and nurturing learning Eton School provides a challenging academic community that embraces diversity, enhances program within an engaging learning environment. collaboration and provides opportunities for We offer meaningful educational experiences, which support understanding, creativity, problem- individuals to develop their unique potential. solving, ownership of learning and self-discipline. Eton students will then be capable of pursuing their life choices with commitment and joy, contributing to their community, their country and the world. 1 Editorial Gabriela Tamayo Elementary Teacher Creativity: a Skill for the Future H uman beings are born creative. As kids, we have all kind of tools to build original thoughts to make things in new ways, to solve problems on our own, and see the world with eyes wide open. But as we grow up, we lose this ability: we make fewer questions, we do not play as much, we suppress our internal voice, and we become afraid to think different. However now, our world needs creative hearts and minds to lead the Human Race to a better place. It needs people that dream, figure things out, and make things happen for all and not only for themselves. The good news is that even as adults, we can train ourselves to develop a creative mind. Ready to try? Illustrations by Andrea Pinto, Isabela Tsutsumida, and Amélie Bretón, 4th Grade 2 From a Director’s Desk Pilar Rodríguez Admissions and Public Relations Director Fomentar la creatividad como habilidad imprescindible en el siglo XXI La creatividad es una de las habilidades naturales diferentes retos, asociar ideas y conceptos ya conocidos, más importantes del ser humano, ya que genera desarrollar autonomía e independencia, aumentar la ideas, conceptos, descubrimientos, así como obras capacidad de análisis y síntesis, tener inquietudes y no originales, útiles y satisfactorias para individuos y ser conformistas. Los proyectos estimulan la confianza sociedades; por ello, en un mundo tan cambiante, es y la seguridad en sus capacidades para objetivos indispensable enseñar a los estudiantes a desplegar concretos, además de permitirles descubrir talentos dicha capacidad. que los pueden hacer destacar en la ciencia, el arte, el liderazgo o cualquier otra esfera de la actividad en la Asimismo, es un pilar fundamental de la educación, sociedad moderna. pues involucra el desarrollo de las habilidades de pensamiento y los procesos cognitivos que conducen a Como a todos los individuos y colectivos, la creatividad hace los aprendizajes significativos. Desarrollar la creatividad felices a nuestros alumnos, porque mejora su autoestima de nuestros alumnos es, además, una vía para ayudarlos y desarrolla su capacidad comunicativa y de adaptación al a afrontar su futuro al descubrir en qué son brillantes cambio, así como en las relaciones sociales. Finalmente, y dejar que sus ideas fluyan para imaginar, inspirar y, puede afirmarse que la creatividad ayuda a incrementar la finalmente, innovar. calidad de vida emocional de las personas. En el Colegio Eton, la creatividad se fomenta mediante el trabajo por proyectos, el cual les posibilita expresar su No son las máquinas las que conducen curiosidad e imaginación, aportar soluciones originales a y arrastran al mundo, sino las ideas. Victor Hugo 3 Early Childhood 4 Creativity: Imagination in Action Rosi Ibinarriaga, Andrea Oberhauser, Cecilia Royo, Estefanía Salazar, and Margarita Gutiérrez Toddler Center Teachers As a group of preschool teachers, we took on the task Constructing original structures is another classroom of analyzing and discussing documentation gathered students’ favorite activity. One day, they decided to build a throughout the year in each of our classrooms. We snake. This was not an easy task because the materials focused on identifying spontaneous moments of creativity they chose had to be assembled in a specific way. This in our students and the impact these have on their gave way to a streak of collaborative work as five children learning processes. worked relentlessly on achieving their common goal. When they were done, they decided to compare the length of the In one occasion, one of the teachers spread different snake to their own. “Am I longer than the snake?” asked figures posted on sticks throughout the carpet and one boy. Straight away, some children observed in detail allowed a group of five students to explore them. It was a the snake and the child, trying to perceive the difference bright, sunny day, and rays of light were shining through in size. Others decided to lie down next to the snake, the classroom windows. The children noticed how comparing their own length and size. We observe how shadows appeared behind these figures that immediately children creatively find different possibilities to solve the became shadow puppets. same problem, not being afraid to try over and over again. Suddenly, the shadows were no longer there, which Accompanying children in their growth and development aroused many questions. “Why did the shadows implies many responsibilities, and for us, the most disappear?” asked one child. His peers shared their own challenging and rewarding experience is to constantly hypotheses. “My figure got tired of making shadows.” question ourselves how to design learning contexts that answered one girl. “They are hiding!” answered another can enhance their innate abilities, impact their cognitive boy. One child got up and started blowing at the clouds process, and promote their critical thinking skills at the so they could let the sun come out again. The children’s same time. natural ability to generate new concepts and produce original solutions by linking past knowledge becomes Creativity becomes visible when adults try to be more evident in situations like this. They are constantly building attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to new possibilities and alternatives, as they develop critical the