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This study analyses a training system for 2nd year students (trainee teachers and students) in the master’s programme “teaching, education and training careers” – Physical Education (PE) to develop their critical thinking. Eleven videos filmed in class, in which PE teachers come into contact with their students, were shown. Then, at the end of the contact, two student reaction scenarios were presented and illustrated. Students had to position themselves, via an interactive questionnaire, on the legitimacy of the contact, the probable reactions of the pupils and whether or not they themselves would adopt a similar behavior. Based on the answers projected on the whiteboard, a debate was launched. This training device seems relevant to encourage the emergence of critical thinking in students and to optimise their professional choices by adopting (or rejecting) accepted professional gestures.