Baccalaureate is a decisive stage in which students consolidate their academic training and begin to define their personal and professional project. At Gaztelueta Global School, these years are experienced with solid academic demands and a very close accompaniment, faithful to the school's educational style.
We spoke to Ramon Porras, a chemistry graduate and teacher, who has been teaching at Gaztelueta since 1998. With the experience of having taught at all stages of education at the school and currently coordinating the Baccalaureate, he reflects on academic excellence, the value of personal treatment and the stamp that Gaztelueta leaves on its students, who know they are part of a real family.
How would you define the Baccalaureate at Gaztelueta Global School?
Baccalaureate at Gaztelueta is a stage of very careful academic demands, but also of a lot of personal accompaniment. We aim for students to reach their highest intellectual and academic level, but without ever losing sight of the person behind them with their concerns, their decisions and their life project.
What distinguishes Gaztelueta's academic demands in the Baccalaureate?
With a highly committed teaching staff, a demanding methodology and constant personal monitoring. It is not only about obtaining good results, which we have, but also about teaching to think, to organise and to take responsibility, key competences for university and for life.
What role does this personal accompaniment play, to which you attach so much value?
It is fundamental. These are years in which important decisions are made and in which pupils need adult role models who know them very well. At Gaztelueta we are committed to a very personal approach, to listening, guiding and helping each pupil to get the best out of themselves, also on a human and personal level.
What does Gaztelueta's identity contribute in these final years?
It brings coherence, meaning and depth. Our identity and our educational project offer a clear framework of values that helps students to grow with judgement, freedom and responsibility. This undoubtedly leaves its mark.
What do you think this footprint materialises in?
They take with them a way of being in the world: a taste for a job well done, friendship, commitment to others and the feeling of being part of something bigger. Gaztelueta does not end when they leave; this is a family that accompanies them before, during and after. And that, I know, is something that all our former students agree on. They continue to recognise it as something decisive and of great value in their lives.
