Elena Martín Ortega

Valoración del Máster de Formación de Profesorado de Educación Secundaria: estudio de casos en dos universidades

The Ley Organica de Educacion of 2006 provides a pre-service training model change for secondary teachers, among its main modifications. Thus, it now proposes to replace the Curso de Aptitud Pedagogica (CAP) with a new degree the master level. This measure ends to a current training model that has been in force for almost forty years. This change had been proposed previously, in 1990 and in 2002, with LOGSE and LOCE, respectively, but they did not get to be started until nowadays. The relevant moment that has involved the implementation of Master of secondary teachers’ education requires adequate monitoring and oriented to progressive improvement. This paper tries to assess the implementation of the Master in Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and in Universidad Pontificia Comillas. We have chosen a methodology based in program evaluation with the case study method. This approach has led to the implementation of document analysis, interviews with key informants from universities and satisfaction surveys to main players and audiences (students, teachers and professional mentors). The results allow identifying the strengths and difficulties in the implementation of the Master in his first two academic years. Between these elements are the weight of the theoretical and the practical phases, sense of Practicum, the professional identity and competences acquiring. Results allow identifying the strengths and difficulties in the process of the Master. They are collected and analyzed in the final section intended for the discussion.