This article presents the advances and research developments about the formative experience in the initial training of teachers from practicum of the Area study of Physical Education, Recreation and Sports −Law 115 of 1994 enacted by Education Ministry in Colombia−. To collect the information was done a document review through of content analysis. The instrument used was a data catala that which included elements such as: objectives, conceptual references methodology, techniques and instruments, findings, literature consulted. The results describe at first moment the conceptual and epistemological bases about the experience in teacher training; in the second part specifies the possible elements that characterize the experience as formative. These results suggest that the formative experience is an unexplored concept, besides support research that reference the concept focus on their interest from institutional and did not from the needs and expectations of the students.
