Teaching Focus [30.0]

The teaching focus is centred on preparation for teaching the upper years in secondary education.
The programme is designed to develop the following skills:
- design, planning and assessment of practices ;
- examination of practices and their context ;
- understanding the institution of school, its framework and the major players ;
There are three main types of activity :
- periods of teaching practice in upper secondary education (60 hours)
- seminars ;
- formal lectures .
They are divided into two main categories:
- teaching practice, classes and multidisciplinary seminars, common to all disciplines. They have the LAGRE course code (13 credits);
- teaching practice, classes and multidisciplinary seminars, relating to the relevant discipline(s) (17 credits).

The teaching focus of the 120 Masters’ degrees includes training for the teacher training certificate in upper secondary education (Agrégation de l’enseignement secondaire supérieur – AESS), (300 hours – 30 credits), with reference to the Decrees of 8 February 2001 and 17 December 2003 (concerning the foundations of neutrality) relating to the initial training of teachers in secondary education in the French-speaking Community of Belgium.
The 30 credits also form the AESS programme in Germanic languages and literatures which can be taken after a 60 or a 120 Master’s degree.

In practical terms, satisfactory completion of the Master’s degree with a teaching focus leads to the award of professional status as a qualified teacher in addition to the Master’s degree with a teaching focus. Assessment of the AESS programme is spread over the 2 years of the Master’s course.

Under the terms of article 76 paragraph 3 of the Decree of 31 March 2004 defining higher education, promoting its integration into the European space for higher education and refinancing universities, public lessons will no longer be organized in the September examination period. Students are therefore strongly recommended to do their utmost to pass in the June period as they will otherwise have to retake their year of study.

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Mandatory Optional Courses not taught this academic year Periodic courses not taught this academic year Periodic courses taught this academic year Two year courses
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						Year
						1	2
A) Placements in an educational environment (7credits) 3 credits in the first year and 4 credits in the second. Theoretical part : 22h30 lectures. Practical part : Pre-Service teacher training : 10 hours observation in a foreign language class; teaching : 40 hours (20 hours per chosen language) :
LGERM2222A	Theory and reflexive practice in the didactics of Modern languages	N.	22.5h	3credits	1q	x
LGERM2222B	Theory and reflexive practice in the didactics of Modern languages	N.	0h + 50h	4credits			x
B) Disciplinary courses and seminars (10credits) Two courses chosen according to the two languages chosen :
LGERM2521	German as a foreign language methodology	Henri Bouillon (coord.)	15h + 35h	5credits	1+2q	x	x
LGERM2522	English as a foreign language (EFL) methodology	Fanny Meunier (coord.)	15h + 35h	5credits	1+2q	x	x
LGERM2523	Dutch as a foreign language methodology	Pierre Godin (coord.)	15h + 35h	5credits	1+2q	x	x
C) Cross-disciplinary courses and seminars (13credits)
LAGRE2020	To understand the adolescent in school situation, to manage the interpersonal relationship and to animate the class group	Anne Chevalier, Ann d'Alcantara, Xavier Dejemeppe, Bernard Demuysere, Christian Lannoye, Pierre Meurens, Pascale Steyns, Philippe van Meerbeeck, Pascal Vekeman, Marie-Cécile Wagner (coord.)	22.5h + 22.5h	4credits		x	x
LAGRE2120	The school institution and its context	Branka Cattonar, Dominique Grootaers, Christian Lannoye, Caroline Letor	22.5h + 25h	4credits		x	x
LAGRE2220	General didactics and education to interdisciplinarity	Ghislain Carlier, Marie-Laurence De Keersmaecker, Myriam De Kesel (coord.), Jean-Louis Dufays, Philippe Parmentier, Marc Romainville, Bernadette Wiame	22.5h + 15h	3credits		x	x
LAGRE2400	See specifications in french	Michel Dupuis, Anne Ghysselinckx (coord.)	20h	2credits		x	x