Teacher Education for Secondary Level I

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  The University of Fribourg offers a course in Teacher Education for Secondary Level I, either in German (LDSI), or in French (DAESI), or bilingually. This training course consists of a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education Level I comprising 180 ECTS credits (BA_SI in the Faculties of Theology or Humanities) or a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education Level I comprising 180 ECTS credits (BSc_SI in the Faculty of Science and Medicine) followed by a «Master of Arts en enseignement pour le degré secondaire I/Master of Arts für den Unterricht auf der Sekundarstufe I».

  Objective
  This training course is aimed at people wishing to teach in Cycle d'Orientation/Orientierungsschulen (CO) classes, corresponding to the final three years of compulsory education, in Switzerland. This prepares students to teach three to four subjects featured in the curriculum of these schools.
  The bachelor's degree does not qualify students to teach; a «Master of Arts en enseignement pour le degré secondaire I/Master of Arts für den Unterricht auf der Sekundarstufe I» is required to teach in secondary level I education in Switzerland.

  Subject training
  The bachelor course is aimed at providing candidates with basic scientific knowledge of their chosen teaching subjects (subject training) as well as the professional skills required to teach pupils in the three final years of compulsory education (professional training, educational skills, didactics and teaching practice). As a general rule, the subject training is done in the different faculties (which means that students follow the study programmes of their chosen teaching subjects), while the professional training, educational skills, didactics and teaching practice are taught in the teacher training facilities [the French-speaking Centre d'enseignement et de recherche pour la formation à l'enseignement au secondaire (CERF) and the German-speaking Zentrum für Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung der Universität Freiburg (ZELF)].

  Professional training, educational skills, didactics and teaching practice at the bachelor level
  The main emphasis is on introducing students to areas of scientific knowledge which play a role in teaching (educational sciences, humanities, didactics) through coursework, and to the practical aspects of teacher training through teaching practice in CO classes.
  The different periods of teaching practice which are a part of the training course ensure students take their first steps as teachers under the supervision of a tutor, the latter being a partner of the CERF or LDSI for the practical part of the course.

  Languages in which the course is taught
  Students may take the course according to a French or German-language study plan, or else according to a bilingual study plan (with either German or French as the major language).

  Find out more
  For further information, please consult the following Web sites:

  • French-language training course (DAES I): https://www.unifr.ch/cerf/fr/bachelor-daes-i.html
  • German-language training course (LDS I): https://www.unifr.ch/zelf/de/ausbildung/lds1/bachelor-lds1.html

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