"BEST TEACHERS" TEACHING PRACTICES CARRIED OUT/OBSERVED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIGO

The aim of this essay consists of identifying, making visible, describing and analysing the teaching practices carried out by the best teachers of the University of Vigo. In order to achieve it, we set out a qualitative design through the observation technique. Before mentioning the main conclusions, we must state that we were interested on searching for references of the "good practices, not on evaluating the teaching practices", good or bad, of the teachers of the University of Vigo. The main conclusion is that even among the "best rated teachers", some teaching practices dominate and these practices could be mainly included in the traditional perspective of education, one model focused on the teacher and the contents of the disciplines. These results are not surprising. In any case, they should not lead us to disregard the interest of studying and making visible the practices of highly rated teachers, although such practices are not truly innovative.