Scientific Culture as a Subject that Orients Student's Personal Vocational Project

Abstract

Nowadays no one disagrees that the position of the teacher as a reference for the students is very important at all educational stages, as more and more new options are getting available after the compulsory education. It does not mean that the teacher has to resolve all the problems, but to provide the resources and to guide the student so they can find a solution. Thus, specific subjects of modality such as Scientific Culture of the fourth year of the secondary school breaks the dynamic of the traditional teaching. This paper presents some works successfully carried out in the educational center in Madrid, showing activities, necessary time to be organized within the academic course, the contents to be worked and its relation with other subjects in a way of interdisciplinary project, as well as the steps to implant these contents trying to organize the sessions in a cooperative way: presenting the activity in an attractive way, helping the student to understand the contents and managing the time to synthesize the information and to assimilate the contents.