The term 'teaching focus' to denote the Masters 120 evokes its underlying aims: providing initial training for secondary teachers teaching in Belgium's French community. More precisely, it includes training leading to a diploma entitled 'Agrégation de l’enseignement secondaire supérieur' (AESS, 300h – 30 credits), by way of reference to the decrees of 8 February, 2001 and 17 December, 2003 regarding the foundations of neutrality. In specific terms, passing the 'teaching focus' part of a master means the student will be awarded with a masters teaching focus and the professional title of 'agrégé de l'enseignement secondaire supérieur'.
Following the training, the student will have acquired skills relating to:
- How teaching works;
- thinking about, planning and evaluating practices;
- considering practices and their context;
- thinking about and analysing the school as an institution, its context and key players.
The system involves three types of activity:
- Internships in upper secondary education (60h);
- seminars;
- lectures.
Teaching is split up into two categories:
Internships, transversal courses and seminars common to all disciplines. These bear the acronym AGRE (13 credits );
Internships, classes and seminars specific to the discipline(s) (17 credits ).
In the master en études bibliques, didactical research as part of religious teaching is not part of one specific course; it develops over the course of various teaching activities (didactical training in teaching religion, classes and seminars in religious teaching. Students can write their masters dissertation in 'didactique de la religion' (teaching religion).
