The programme is designed for people who wish to teach their subject to pupils at the higher levels of secondary education.
Today’s teachers are required to play an essential role with their pupils, as the Decree of 24 July 1997 sets out :

1.    to promote self-confidence and personal development in all pupils;

2.    to encourage all pupils to take responsibility for their own learning and acquire skills which will help them to learn throughout their lives and to play an active part in economic, social and cultural life;

3.    to prepare all pupils to become responsible citizens, capable of contributing to the development of a society which is democratic, supportive, pluralist and open to other cultures;

4.    ensure that all pupils have an equal chance of social emancipation.

To prepare future teachers to take on this ambitious and demanding role, the teaching qualification programme is designed to help them acquire the following skills :

Understanding the educational institution, its setting and players

What interaction is there between the education system and current society?
What do today’s teenagers make of the relationship with the school, the teachers and educationalists and the authorities?
How does a teaching team work?

Designing, structuring, managing and assessing teaching-learning situations

How to design varied and motivating sequences of lessons?
How to create effective learning situations by making use of a solid grasp of the subject and education theory and practice?
How to transform this into activities to make pupils responsible for their own learning and how to assess what pupils have learned?

Examining teaching practices and their context

How to develop an attitude of carefully examining one’s own practice in a certain context and for a particular target audience?
How to base this examination on educational and ethical criteria as well as on references to education research?