This article describes and discusses a group of newly trained vocational teachers’ experiences of outcomes of their teacher education in terms of professional skills. Seven students participated in focus group discussions concerning one of the professional teacher training national objectives. The results show that the newly trained vocational teachers acquired a new vision of the teaching profession and that they have strengthened both their professional identity and their self-confidence. They have new, broader and more improved tools to use in teaching, and they see the importance of having a vocational teacher education. Skills that are considered important in the new vocational teachers’ profession are for example to able to see the individual students and reach out to them with his message, and to make just assessments and set fair grades.
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