What is It to Be A Bad Teacher? Beliefs of Future Secondary School Teachers in Their Initial Training in Spain.

Juan García Rubio
Universidad De Valencia

Abstract

The teacher is the fundamental element in the teaching-learning process, and is especially relevant for students who present more difficulties in the classroom. Initial teacher training is essential for the achievement of a more competent teacher who is capable of successfully facing the beginning of the teaching profession, and in this, the previous beliefs or conceptions that students have about what a bad teacher is are key. The prior ideas with which future teachers come to university classrooms determine their first teaching identity and the beginning of their professional practice. In this paper, the research focused on the beliefs of prospective secondary school teachers about what they consider to be a bad teacher. A qualitative, biographical-descriptive methodology was used, in which the students' accounts were the starting point for establishing what characterises a bad teacher. The results show that the future secondary school teachers place the bad relationship between the teacher and the students and their negative attitude in the exercise of their profession as the key factors for being a bad teacher, above any other, including aspects related to the way in which the curriculum is taught.

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