The project on the construction of teaching identity suggests about thirty measures for improvement of the Teaching course for next year

The ARMIF research project entitled "Building teaching identity based on practice and research in the classroom: the role of the Practicum and the Bachelor's Degree Final Project in the initial training of the Primary Education teacher" also ended at the end of this academic year. The project, which presented its conclusions at the international seminar on Teaching Identities which took place at the UVic last February, lasted two years and was part of the MIF programme (Improvement and Innovation in Teacher Training). The initiative was led by Núria Simó, of the UVic Educational Research Group (GREUV) and Gemma Torres, of the Physical Education Research Group (GREF).

The project's research team tracked the practicums and the bachelor's thesis of eight students on the fourth year of the bachelor's degree programmes in Pre-School and Primary Teaching during the 2015-2016 academic year. It aimed to record the perspectives of the school and the University's students and tutors on these academic activities, and to suggest measures for improvement that could be implemented in Teaching courses at the UVic-UCC during the next academic year. The main conclusions reached by the researchers include the fact that teachers' initial training improves if university tutors are involved in training processes and reflective practice with the tutor teachers at schools.

Around thirty measures for improvement have been proposed, and are divided by activity (practicum seminar, practicum report and bachelor's thesis) and according to the relationships between the various parties involved (students, University tutors and schools). Suggestions include closer monitoring of the practicums and bachelor's thesis; establishing a closer relationship between students and their two tutors; providing more training in schools aimed at university tutors, and creating training spaces shared between tutors based on practical cases from classrooms and schools.

In addition to Simó and Torres, the other participants in the project were Joan Soler, Laura Domingo, Antoni Tort, Itxaso Tellado, Vanesa Amat, Sònia Esteve and Berta Vila from the UVic-UCC, Francesc Buscà from the University of Barcelona, and the Primary Education teachers Núria Martínez and Aloma Cuiné.