Colegio San José Niño-Jesús is located in Reinosa, Cantabria for more than 100 years. Its education supply covers from the childwood Education to the Baccalaureate. Currently, the school is developing an integrated project of educational innovation (PIIE): “The school that learns: the student as an active agent of change”. Among the objectives of this project include improving the competence development of students or linking the teaching processes environment through projects.
David Tejido Sáez has a Physics degree from the UC, and he works as teacher in San José Child Niño Jesús of Reinosa since 2006. In 2014 he participated in the course «Teachers for Change and Innovation», where the experiences seen in other centers located in the spearhead of the methodological change, led him to carry out in his school similar practices based mainly on learning for projects. Since then, as Head of the Science Department, he has motivated and walked with his colleagues towards the implementation of new methodologies and the design of STEM activities. He has promoted several ApS in the Campoo region, and has exhibited in the SIMO (Madrid-IFEMA) with his partner Daniel Rucandio, the mathematical project «Holográmate», that combines Mathematics with Physics and TICs. In addition, both have participated in the STEMforYouth project of the University of Cantabria where they presented an engineering activity called «Floating Nest» with students from the 1st year of ESO, consisting of the design of a floating nest for the Great Crested Grebe. This project became real in the Ebro reservoir, and it has attracted the interest of numerous people linked to education and the environment, and with it, and thanks to the STEMforYouth team, they were able to show it in different national and international events.
Daniel Rucandio San José has a Biology degree from the Salamanca University and has been working as a science teacher at CC. San José – Niño Jesús (Reinosa) since 2009. Convinced of the importance of project-based learning and the advantages that students achieve through STEAM projects, such as: teamworking, think by their own, find out solutions for actual problems, speak in public in English and all the wrongly named “SOFT SKILLS”, he has been developing for the last 5 years this kind of experiences at school. Actually, as head teacher, he is promoting this kind of learning among teachers and students at CC. San José – Niño Jesús.
