Colegio Montserrat

The Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family of Nazareth opened Colegio Montserrat in 1926 with a vision to ‘shape the mind and heart” of its children. In the present day, their vision has translated further into providing ‘quality teaching, excellence, and innovation’.

On its Barcelona campus, it teaches approximately 1050 students from K-12. The faculty staff is convinced that the student is the main protagonist of their learning and is willing to help each one achieve their own excellence in all areas possible.

Over the last 20 years, the Colegio has learned from far and wide and has established an educational program that encompasses research in neuroscience, psychology, and sociology. It is based on the certainty that each student is intelligent, that the opportunities we offer them will help them develop their multiple intelligences and that the confidence and the possibility of learning together will emerge from their autonomy in learning.

The school is constantly improving its educational model with a new curriculum for the 21st Century (interdisciplinary, contextualized, global), with project-based methodologies that use technology as tools and authentic assessment  that is another way of learning,

Teachers become designers of learning experiences (instead of content deliverers) and coaches and students are now creators with much more autonomy in the design of their learning plan (instead of just consuming curriculum). This affects the organization in terms of time, groupings, learning sessions, and combined subjects and it has also an impact on the learning space that allows learning to happen everywhere and at any time.

Representative

Sr. Monika Horch

Sr. Monika Horch has a degree in Anglo-Germanic Philology and Business. Graduated in the Leading Schools Program at High Tech High Graduate School of Education in San Diego, she has participated in the courses of the Institutes of the Potential for Human Development in Philadelphia, in Reggio Emilia in Italy, in Project Zero at Harvard, in the Key Learning Community in Indianapolis and in the National Center for Teaching Thinking (N.C, Univ. of Massachusetts). She has also participated in international conferences such as “Conference on Thinking” in Sweden, Ireland and Spain, at the Fourth World Conference on Visible Thinking in Amsterdam and many other events of educational professional development. She has presented in many conferences and courses sharing her experience, She has written articles in educational journals and is co-author of the books “Una experiencia a compartir. Las Inteligencias Múltiples en el Colegio Montserrat”, “Aprendizaje Inteligente” and “Aprender hoy y liderar mañana” (authored by Montserrat Del Pozo. Sr. Monika has been a teacher for more than 30 years. At Colegio Montserrat she has been part of the leading team and the secondary school humanities teaching team. At present, she is part of the General Council of the Congregation of Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, an international institution with schools in 10 countries in 5 continents.