Some organizations have warned that most secondary school curricula do not include a substantial geology component. Inadequate geological knowledge affects not only university students but also the majority of citizens who finish their secondary studies without having learned any basic geological concepts. The insufficient geological training of pre-university teachers who are later expected to teach some geology generates a certain degree of insecurity and fear about teaching geology. Therefore, it is imperative to improve training for trainee teachers to replace usual ways of thinking about geology teaching with new approaches that promote significant geological learning. This research has a dual objective: first, we analyze whether trainee teachers’ theses include geoscience content; second, we explore how innovative ideas and practices can be translated for educational purposes and to promote geologically significant learning. Our findings reveal that environmental impacts, plate tectonics and the hydrosphere are concurrent topics in the geosciences. However, trainee teachers in Spain prefer to develop biology units because many of them have training in bioscience fields of knowledge. Traditional education based on the exposition of learning material by the teacher was identified as the main learning environment developed in the trainee teachers’ theses. However, the number of innovations incorporated into trainee teachers’ theses has increased. Through this process, trainee teachers have a critical role to play: encouraging their future secondary students to develop geology knowledge.

一些组织警告说，大多数中学课程没有包括实质性的地质部分。地质知识不足不仅会影响大学生，还会影响大多数在未学习任何基本地质概念的情况下完成中学课程的公民。大学预科教师的地质培训不足，这些教师后来被期望教授某些地质学知识，这在一定程度上引起了人们的不安全感，并且对地质学教学感到恐惧。因此，必须加强对实习教师的培训，用促进重大地质学习的新方法来代替常规的地质教学思路。这项研究具有双重目标：首先，我们分析受训教师的论文是否包含地球科学内容；第二，我们探索如何将创新思想和实践转化为教育目的并促进具有重要地质意义的学习。我们的发现表明，环境影响，板块构造和水圈是地球科学中的并行主题。但是，西班牙的受训教师更喜欢开发生物学部门，因为他们中的许多人都接受过生物科学知识领域的培训。传统的基于教师对学习资料的阐述的教育被确定为实习教师论文中发展的主要学习环境。但是，纳入实习教师论文的创新数量有所增加。在此过程中，实习教师将发挥关键作用：鼓励他们未来的中学生发展地质知识。