<p>This article reports the literature review of numerous studies on pedagogical practice, teacher training and professional profile, with a view to the continuous improvement of training processes and curricular resignification that enable the training of competent teachers in their discipline and in being models for children. The method implemented is qualitative through the documentary review technique; in this, it is possible to highlight as a result the analysis of various sources that allow elucidating how the comprehensive training of early childhood education graduates should be oriented towards the construction of general and specific competencies from the attitudinal, procedural and conceptual aspects, especially the training in soft skills, such as empathetic listening framed in the role of the teacher not only in a set of knowledge to impart but as a human model to follow.</p>