Experiences of Emotional Development for the Resolution of Difficulties in Teacher Training

Abstract

The present work describes the experiences in the implementation of an Emotional Development Project, carried out in a Higher Level Teacher Training Institute in the City of Córdoba, Argentina, in the year 2022. The project emerged as an investigative tool that explores and responds to problems identified by the institution's trainers during the students' professional practices. The problems were: high levels of stress before and during the teaching practice, lack of confidence in one's own abilities to deal with children, and limitations in giving creative and adapted responses to the problems that arise during the stay at school.  A series of methodologies far from school traditions (encyclopedic, enlightened, positivist) were implemented, which we identified as contributing to the generation and support of the aforementioned problems. Surveys and experiential workshops were used focused on: working with oneself and the identification of strengths that would allow empowering one's own resources for the performance of professional practice. The results obtained allowed us to project a work of inclusion of contents and practices addressed in the curriculum of the Careers offered by the Institution.