The current Faculty of Education was born out of the Pontevedra Teacher Training College (for men), which was created in 1845.

In 1896, on the Gran Vía de Montero Ríos, construction began on the large eclectic building designed by the architect Arturo Calvo Tomelén for the School of Arts and Crafts, which was inaugurated in 1901 and later housed the Mixed Teacher Training School of Pontevedra.

[6] Thus, the modern educational establishment has its origin in the University School of Basic General Education of Pontevedra, which was integrated into the University of Santiago de Compostela and was located on the south bank of the Lérez River, in Buenos Aires Avenue.

[10] The design of the current Faculty building, which opened on the A Xunqueira campus in October 2006,[11] designed by the architects Jesús Irisarri Castro and Guadalupe Piñera, won the SICE prize in 2008, awarded by the Spanish High Council of Architects' Associations.

The Faculty publishes the Journal of Educational Research (Revista de Investigación en Educación).