Entering the Teaching Profession. Learning how to be a Secondary School Teacher in Mexico

Abstract

This article analyses the different roads secondary school beginner teachers take when initiating their professional activity, focusing on the way professional knowledge is acquired as a result of their teaching experience. This process in initial teacher education involves the daily practicum and importance of school space. There is also a discussion on the working conditions and teaching models secondary school teachers face when they begin to teach and how through these they understand what their professional activity involves.