engGarcía-Magariño García, IvánPlaza, InmaculadaIgual, RaúlLombas, Andrés S.Towards Agent-Based Simulation Support for Training TeachersART-2016-101175he quality of teacher training is crucial as it influences the academic performance of students. The last decades have witnessed a steep increase in the use of information applications for improving the training of teachers. In this line of work, the current approach proposes to use agent-based simulation for supporting the training of teachers. The current work focuses on the capability of teachers in designing appropriate teaching strategies with the corresponding schedules of learning activities. In particular, the current approach uses FTS-SOCI (an agent-based Framework for simulating Teaching Strategies with evolutions of Sociograms) for simulating the social repercussions of certain teaching strategies. Teachers can pursue obtaining groups with high cohesion, which is normally related with a high academic performance. This article illustrates the current approach with the training of a computer science teacher for the programming subject.2016http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/62085http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/62085oai:zaguan.unizar.es:62085info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/CAS16-00075info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/TEC2013-50049-EXPLectures on Modelling and Simulation 2 (2016), 66-77All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess