Improvement of the initial training of teachers: the MIF Program Authors Miquel Martínez i Martín Departament de Teoria i Història de l’Educació de la Facultat d’Educació de la Universitat de Barcelona Enric Prats i Gil Departament de Teoria i Història de l’Educació de la Facultat d’Educació de la Universitat de Barcelona Ana Marín i Blanco Departament de Teoria i Història de l’Educació de la Facultat d’Educació de la Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: Initial teacher education, education quality, teaching quality, universities, Introducció Abstract This paper presents the action taken and the results achieved in the Improvement and Innovation in Initial Teacher Education Program (MIF Program) since its creation two years ago. It briefly explains and evaluates some of the measures adopted to improve the system, presenting other actions spearheaded by the Program and announcing some challenges for the future in initial teacher education.KeywordsInitial teacher education, education quality, teaching quality, universities. Introducció Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) How to Cite Martínez i Martín, M., Prats i Gil, E., & Marín i Blanco, A. (2016). Improvement of the initial training of teachers: the MIF Program. Revista Catalana De Pedagogia, 9, 24–42. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/RCP/article/view/139476 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.