Which Trajectories to Train ‘Second Level’ Educational Professionals? Reflections about a University Traineeship Facing COVID-19 Pandemic

The university traineeship programme could represent a fundamental place for synthesis and composition (Galimberti et al., 2016). The Master Degree Course in Advanced Edu-cational Sciences of Milano Bicocca University elaborated a programme meant to en-hance the learning potential for students, firstly carried out in A.Y. 2015-2016 and la-belled Tirocinio Formativo e di Orientamento (TFO) or Traineeship and Guidance Pro-gramme (Galimberti et al., 2015).The University traineeship programme for second level educational professionals will be presented, highlighting its pedagogical assumptions. Particularly, a specific focus will be dedicated to activities of research (Fook, 2002; Koustoulas et al., 2019) in an educational service setting with the aim to explore the ed-ucational second level professional functions being implemented there (Gambacorti-Passerini, 2019).The path, proposed for the first time in the 2015-2016 academic year, has been further refined year by year also referring to focus group discussions conducted with the students at the end of the full year of operation of the training. Important changes in the traineeship have been caused by the Covid-19 pandemic: a peculiar focus of the presentation will be also oriented to expose them and the educa-tional reflections that justified them.