Colegio Nautilus

Colegio Nautilus
Address
Juan Sebastian Elcano#16 Acapulco Mexico
Coordinates	16°50′53.60″N 99°50′41.70″W
Information
Type	Private schhool
Motto	La perfección de la naturaleza es nuestra mejor lección
Founded	1986
Headmaster	Dr. Alejandro Oscós
Color(s)	Blue and white
Website	http://www.nautilus.edu.mx/

The Nautilus School is a renowed bilingual private school in the city of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico founded in 1986. The institution offers its services in the Preschool, Primary (Elementary) and Secondary (Middle School) levels. The certification of the University of Cambridge, England for English as a second language has been offered since 1986. The School includes the highly acclaimed High/Scope approach in Preeschool. In this approach, the teacher tends to not teach the ideas, but rather "provide experiences and materials that help children develop the broad language and logical abilities that are the foundation for later academic learning. For example, to encourage children's beginning reading and writing skills, teachers create a print-rich environment and provide opportunities throughout the day for children to listen to stories, explore books and other print materials, and work with writing tools and materials The program of marine education for children M.A.R.E from the Lawrence Hall of Science from the University of Berkeley, California, [[USA}} and the first in offering digital media training courses from Apple Inc to children.

History

Before the development of tourism in Acapulco in the 1980s, there was a mismatch between academic endeavour at attainment. With the development of new infrastructure such as the Freeway of the Sun, Acapulco required a new educational model. The ambitions of the tourism industry, the modernising local community and incomers called for better and bilingual education.

For September 1987 the Nautilus School was inaugurated thanks to the great support of distinguished local industralists summoned by the patronage of the school. At the beginning of the Nineties the school had managed to certify its programs of English, environmental education and to be the first school in Acapulco with a computerized multimedia hall. In this heading of educative technologies, the school maintained the leadership in the matter of computacional culture until obtaining the service to the parents to see its children work in the classroom via Internet and being once more the first School in Acapulco to have a technological partnership with Apple Inc.

At the moment, in 2008 the school has new designed facilities architectonic and electronically to go beyond the interactive blackboards. To its 22 years since its foundation, the school has developed architectonic spaces that teachers aptitudes of and student allow to the optimization of the creative generating suitable processes of learning to obtain the excellence.