Abstract
The formation and training of PE teachers in France is carried out during two years at the IUFM (University Institute for the Formation of Schoolteachers –'Maestros'). Previously, candidates have obtained the degree on STAPS (PE and Sport Sciences). In this context, this paper analyzes the profile of teaching orientated students and the changes of representations that are shaped within the professionalization process. Contrasting the differences between professional ideals with real practices, variations of future teachers expectations are considered in relation to their socialization process. Although the study shows the emergency of a professional identity, the results also underline the evolution of the tensions and the difficulties for a pertinent tutorial monitoring, adapted to the complexity of the professionalization process. The paper is mainly based on data obtained by questionnaires and semi-structured interviews carried out in two stages of a wider longitudinal study with students of the degree STAPS and, some years later, of the IUFM.