Towards an enhancement of the professional skills of teachers Authors Francesc Imbernon i Muñoz Departament de Didàctica i d’Organització Educativa de la Facultat d’Educació de la Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: Professionalization of teaching staff, professional identity, teacher training, professional induction, access to teaching, teaching career. Abstract The professionalization of teachers is a key element to improve teaching and increase the quality of education. This article analyzes the situation of the professionalization of teaching and its professional development, the elements that form it and the problems to be considered, establishing processes to review initial and ongoing training as well as labor issues of teachers to improve their professional situation and training.KeywordsProfessionalization of teaching staff, professional identity, teacher training, professional induction, access to teaching, teaching career. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) How to Cite Imbernon i Muñoz, F. (2016). Towards an enhancement of the professional skills of teachers. Revista Catalana De Pedagogia, 9, 11–23. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/RCP/article/view/139475 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 9 (2015) Section Monographic issue: Professional teacher training License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Revista Catalana de Pedagogia, authors accept the following terms: Authors grant to Societat Catalana de Pedagogia (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Revista Catalana de Pedagogia. Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Pedagogia for the authorship and originality of submitted articles. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles. Societat Catalana de Pedagogia declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors. The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it. The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.