The pre-service training of students in the Bachelor’s in Primary Education on how to teach immigrant students and different educational intervention measures / La formación del alumnado del Grado de Educación Primaria para enseñar a alumnos inmigrantes y las medidas de intervención educativa

Abstract

This research emerged from the idea of studying the opinion of students in the Bachelor’s in Primary Education at the University of Granada on their training to teach immigrant students. We want to know if the students feel prepared to face this kind of teaching, if they feel they receive enough training for this challenge and if they know about the educational intervention measures that exist and should be applied when teaching immigrants. The results indicate that we should introduce changes in the teaching-learning process to improve the efficiency of pre-service teacher training, as the multilingual and multicultural nature of Spanish society today is constantly growing and increasingly requires teachers who are prepared to meet this demand. We also believe that in our job as educators we should aim for a kind of training that reflects the current job demands and adjusts to all of its specific characteristics.