Exploratory study on the current stage of initial training of high school teachers in Spain

This paper aims to analyze the current situation in which is the initial training of high school teachers and its problems from the perspective of the training model in Spain. Specifically, the purpose of the work has been trying to identify the motivations that lead to student profiles to pick the master and its relationship to the vocational nature of the studies leading to it. To that end, a fieldwork was developed by collecting a total of 512 surveys Master students in Faculty Compulsory and High Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Language Teaching (hereinafter PLMS) belonging to the Universities of Burgos (UBU), Cordoba (UCO) and Jaen (UJA), during 2015/2016. The results reveal that initial training of high school teachers is predominantly focused on specific subjects within each specialty and that the structural dimensions (social. political. cultural, organizational) have not received enough importance, being represented in a series of subjects of low weight and "subordinate" to the specialty. Nor does the training that derives from the Practicum seem to receive enough importance.