The article focuses on the ways in which teachers in higher education learn how to participate in the professional training of students. It is based on a sociology of socialization theoretical approach. The issue deals with the question of the organization of relationships between a University Institute of Technology (IUT) and the workplace. The example developed by a monographic method is tutoring: on our field of study it means teachers supporting students on the workplace during internships. The article studies the institutional organization of tutoring and its appropriation by teachers.