Teacher Education for Secondary Level I

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  The University of Fribourg offers a course in Teacher Education for Secondary Level I in either German (LDS I) or in French (DAES I). 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
  The master's degree course enables people who already have a qualification in three to four teaching subjects to acquire the requisite professional skills to teach pupils in the three final years of compulsory education (écoles du Cycle d'Orientation/Orientierungsschulen).
  The DAES I and LDS I diplomas are recognised by the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (CDIP/EDK) and entitle holders to teach anywhere in Switzerland.

  Course description
  The master's degree course enables candidates to acquire the requisite professional skills to teach pupils in the three final years of compulsory education. It is structured so as to expose students systematically to findings from the fields of educational sciences and didactics.
  It comprises acquisition (knowledge, know-how and soft skills) while confronting students with multiple teaching situations and encouraging reflection and analysis. As a result, students learn progressively to mobilise resources so as to provide an adequate response in real time to complex educational situations. The three areas covered by the training course are: educational sciences (including a large section devoted to research as a means of training); general and specialised didactics; teaching practice and analysis.
  Similarly, the objective of the master's thesis is to demonstrate the students' ability to investigate in depth a subject related to teaching and to produce an academic work according to scientific principles and criteria.

  General course organisation
  There are two variants of this training course: it is either integrated into students' studies from their first year, or during the course of their university studies on condition that they catch up the number of ECTS credits required for the education and didactics course.

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

  • French-language training course (DAESI): http://www3.unifr.ch/cerf/fr/enseignement-au-secondaire-1/
  • German-language training course (LDSI): http://www3.unifr.ch/zelf/de/ausbildung/lehrdiplom-lds1/

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