This study is included in the wide field of discussion as far as teachers education is concerned. The research´s subjects under debate are the educators preservice teachers actions, the knowledge these educators are acquainted with and the way they conduce their practices. It was investigated the educators´ main features, how their spaces are organized and how they develop their work. Semi-structured interviews were accomplished with eighteen educators of preservice teachers who instruct mathematics and mathematics methodology in three different levels: medium level normal courses, superior normal courses and pedagogy courses. The study also discusses the practices used by the educators of preservice teachers, identifying the selected contents, the objectives they aim to reach and the methodologies which are developed in their practices. The main results of the research have pointed out some problems, such as the lack of a special pedagogical way of thinking how to teach mathematics in elementary classes in normal courses, considering, also, the respective consequences of this problem. In relation the others preservice teacher education´s modalities, it was possible identify the emphasis on some kind of contents and activities, such as: the priority attributed to the numbers and operations contents; the insufficient approach of geometric contents, statistics contents and greatness and measures contents; the inadequacy of the pedagogic knowledge developed, which is frequently developed in a restricted way, as the knowledge might be related to the concrete materials and their employment. It seems that the educator´s practices are influenced by a series of questions such as the classes durability, the lack of knowledge as far as questions related to teach and learning initial classes concerned, their understanding about the approach since the understand be important to approach contents in their courses as educators, and on the experiences they have had as students and teachers of initial classes and secondary classes. The study also has brought the teachers´ education contributions, in accordance with the sample possible to be organized.