This article summarizes the results of a qualitative study conducted with novice teachers in highly vulnerable social, economic and cultural backgrounds in the Bíobio region in Chile. The central aim of the study was to determine these teachers perceptions and interpretations of the processes of recontextualization of the official Chilean educational plans and programs, within the classrooms. The method consisted of qualitative interviews and the analysis was based on an ad-hoc technique. The results showed a high degree of social commitment of the novice teachers with their students and an autonomous attitude towards the recontextualization of the plans and programs.