Experiences and proposals for the training of secondary education counselors based on the students of psychopedagogy practicum’s opinion

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Introduction: Psychopedagogy students’ opinion regarding acquisition and development of counseling skills through this degree’s Practicum, gathering it properly, constitutes a valid source of information on developing proposals to improve the professionalizing experiences pursued in the current Master in Teachers from Compulsory Secondary Education and Bachelor, Vocational Training and Language Teaching on educational counseling specialty (MPESOBFPEI-OE). This is the meaning of the research presented in this article. Methodology: Even though we used the analysis of documents, it is mainly quantitative. The sample, randomly selected, is constituted by 53 subjects of the U.Vigo from the 60 students who completed their education psychology’s Practicum in 2012-13 and 2013-14 courses. It has been used a Likert scale questionnaire, which reliability, calculated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient, is . 956. Results: Embodied a series of activities which, being of importance to the counseling skills acquisition in the current educational system, were not performed during the development of this matter. Conclusions: In the educational psychology practicum learning hardly aimed at the development of counseling consistent with the requirements of consultation models and competition programme are pursued. In terms of MPESOBFPEI-OE it is necessary to develop a didactic guide structured in blocks of competencies, as well as the establishment of selection criteria for centers that enable scenarios appropriate to the current counseling model's own skills.