CHANGING PASSIVE BEHAVIOUR IN THE CLASSROOM

One of the objectives to be attained in a comprehensive education is to enable the student to tackle the lifelong learning process by itself. In this study some guidelines for teaching actions in the classroom are analysed in order to encourage the interest of students in learning. We describe the motivating methodologies that have been applied in some subjects since 2010 when the new curriculum was implemented in the School of Industrial Design and Engineering (ETSIDI) of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). Different learning strategies depending on the group being addressed are used. Work has been done specifically in four subjects, two in the first year and two other in the second year of studies. The academic performance of students in some course groups of the subjects Physics I, Physics II, Thermodynamics and Heat Transmission, that have worked with motivational techniques are analysed showing a satisfactory degree of success when compared with other similar groups that do not use such techniques.