Interactive and Digital Teaching
Educational Project
Leveraging cutting-edge technology and innovative teaching methods to create engaging, interactive learning experiences that inspire curiosity and active participation.
“The school does not exist to preserve itself, but to respond with courage to the challenges of the present and the future.”
— Papa Francesco
Active Pedagogy for the Modern World
Traditionally, since the 1500s, Jesuit pedagogy has embraced active and interactive teaching that goes beyond frontal instruction. Today this tradition meets contemporary methodology: cooperative learning, laboratory experiences, CLIL, outdoor education and authentic tasks create an educational environment where students are protagonists, not passive recipients.
Experience-Based Learning
The Ignatian Paradigm begins with experience: engaging students through their lived realities, emotions and personal connections. This experiential foundation motivates genuine learning and prepares the ground for deeper understanding.
Cooperative Learning
Structured group work with defined roles and responsibilities, peer confrontation, and shared problem-solving strategies that develop social and communicative competences alongside academic ones.
Interdisciplinary Approach
Learning Units and thematic pathways that weave different subjects together, revealing connections, complementary perspectives and a more complete understanding of reality.
Authentic Assessment
Meaningful, contextualised activities (projects, products, presentations, research, community service) that allow students to apply knowledge and skills in real or realistic situations, building motivation and efficacy.
Teaching Challenges, Active Solutions
Moving beyond traditional instruction to create engaging, meaningful and inclusive learning experiences for every student.
Beyond Frontal Teaching
Traditional lecture-based instruction, if not integrated with active practices, can generate passivity, reduce motivation and attention, and fail to respect diverse learning rhythms. A fragmented approach to subjects makes knowledge appear as isolated pieces unconnected to life.
The school promotes teaching that integrates explanation and systematisation with active, lab-based methodologies consistent with the Ignatian paradigm (experience-reflection-action): guided discovery, workshops, games, outdoor learning, and campus spaces as learning environments.
Active and lab-based teaching: guided discovery, scientific/linguistic/artistic workshops
Outdoor learning: campus spaces as extensions of the classroom
Cooperative learning with structured roles and shared problem-solving
Essential frontal instruction as functional support, not the default mode
Multiple expressive channels: verbal, graphic, physical, musical, digital
Teaching in Action
The methodologies, tools and approaches that bring active pedagogy to life every day across Gonzaga Campus.
Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm
Praelectio (experience and motivation), Lectio (organised instruction), Repetitio (internalisation and application): a progressive learning cycle that places the student at the centre.
Cooperative Learning
Structured group work with defined roles, peer confrontation, and shared problem-solving. Students develop social competences, communication skills and collaborative intelligence.
Laboratory Experiences
Scientific, linguistic, artistic and digital workshops where students learn through doing. STEAM integration, practical-manual activities, and campus spaces as living laboratories.
CLIL Methodology
Content and Language Integrated Learning: science and geography taught in English, developing subject knowledge and language competence simultaneously in small groups.
Outdoor Education
The campus gardens, courtyards and green spaces are used as extensions of the classroom: nature observation, outdoor experiments, movement breaks and experiential learning in the open air.
Authentic Tasks
Projects, products, presentations, research and community service that connect classroom learning to real situations, increasing motivation, sense of efficacy and depth of understanding.
Active Teaching at Every Level
Teaching methodologies evolve with the student, becoming progressively more autonomous and complex while maintaining the commitment to active, engaged learning.
Infanzia
6 months - 5 yearsLearning through play, exploration and multi-sensory experience. The classroom is a rich environment where children discover the world through doing, touching, building and imagining.
Key Features
Play as the primary learning methodology
Multi-sensory exploration and hands-on activities
Outdoor education and nature-based learning
Bilingual immersion through daily routines and songs
Primaria
6 - 10 yearsActive and lab-based teaching as the core approach. Cooperative learning, interdisciplinary projects, CLIL in English, and campus spaces as learning environments.
Key Features
Ignatian Paradigm: experience-reflection-action daily
Cooperative learning with structured group roles
CLIL: science and geography in English
Guided study during school hours building autonomy
Medie
11 - 13 yearsDepartmental teaching with increasing student autonomy. Lab-based approaches, research projects, and collaborative learning across humanistic, scientific and linguistic blocks.
Key Features
Departmental organisation enabling specialist depth
Research projects developing critical inquiry skills
Collaborative digital tools for group projects
Symposia and thematic weeks beyond normal curriculum
Licei
14 - 18 yearsAdvanced lab experiences, STEAM integration, university-level research methods, and student-led projects. The culmination of active pedagogy in preparation for higher education.
Key Features
STEAM Liceo with dedicated innovation labs
Student-led research and presentation projects
University preparation through active study methods
Symposia: immersive interdisciplinary experience weeks
ISP
2 - 18 yearsIB inquiry-based methodology where students are researchers and knowledge-builders. Concept-driven learning, service as action, and the Extended Essay as the culmination of research skills.
Key Features
Inquiry-based learning central to all IB programmes
Concept-driven curriculum connecting big ideas
Service as Action: community engagement as learning
Extended Essay: independent university-level research