This study is included in the wide debate regarding the teachers´ training. It is about an investigation which has its main subject the teachers of elementary education who have trainees in their classrooms. The objective this study is to understand the importance of those teachers in the education process of the trainees who attend their classes, wich importance they attribute to this work the traineesand how they see themselves towards the education of the future teachers. The university and the school as irreplaceable spaces for teachers education and the importance attributed to the knowledge acquired through experience, which gives the some driving forces to the development of this work. Authors as Tardif, Nóvoa, Ludke, Perrenoud, Dubar, among other, were important speakers. To this research, semi-structured interviews were made with eleven teachers of three elementary schools in Rio de Janeiro city which have experience with trainees. The aim was to interview teachers who work in three different situations: teachers who work in a school of application of a public university, teachers who work in a municipal public school which is part of a partnership with a private university for teacher training project and teachers who work for a municipal common school which also receive trainees. This diverse composionof that sample tried to find meaningful differences for the discussion regarding the trainees. Through the analysis of those teachers´ depositions, it is possible to say that most of them, regardlessof the school they work, play an important role in the teachers education process, they are a kind of link or bridge that cooperates in teh integration of what is learned in the university with the teacher´s reality. Through the contact with the trainees in the classrooms the teachers were able to detect and to evaluate gaps and problems in the trainees´ education. However, they reveal their participation in the evaluation process, as well as in the discussions about those has not yet been formalized when it refers to university teachers education. That is, although the discussions and studies show the importance of the knowledge buit by teachers during the teaching practice and need that the teacher is the main actor in the discussions and decisions regarding his education, his role in this process is not yet acknowledge and his place still remains informal.