Teacher Education in German, Bachelor

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    Duration
  • Tuition
    8090
    Tuition (Year)
    1984
    Tuition (Year)
  • English, German
    Language

About

It goes without saying that teachers have to be knowledgeable about their subjects, but they also have to be able to get this knowledge across to their pupils. As a teacher, your job does not only involve standing in front of a class to teach your subject but you also guide and tutor your pupils, set up projects and organise study trips and other activities.

The teacher education programme at the Archimedes Institute leads to a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) teaching qualification. This qualifies you to teach in the following school categories and levels in the Netherlands:

  • the first three years of secondary education (HAVO and VWO) equivalent to lower secondary education in the British system and the middle years programme of the International Baccalaureate;
  • vocational secondary schools and colleges and Special Education (VMBO,MBO);

Job perspective:

German teacher for lower secondary school levels (years 12- 16) teaching German as a Foreign or Second language. Teaching German as a Foreign language or Second language in language schools.

Detailed Programme Facts

  • Deadline and start date Application deadline and start date were not specified by the programme.
  • Study intensity Full-time
  • Languages
    • Partially taught in English
    • Partially taught in German
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  • Delivery mode
    On Campus

Programme Structure

The first year

You will be working on your reading, writing, listening and speaking skills so that you become highly proficient in German. In addition, there are classes in grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. You will also follow classes on teaching methodology – this is how you get your subject knowledge across to pupils – with an emphasis on communicative language teaching. Everything you do during this course works on two levels: you acquire knowledge about the German language, literature and its society while at the same time you learn to put your experience into practice by doing teacher training in a secondary school.

The second and subsequent years

During the course of the programme you will grow into your role as a teacher. You will be given an increasing amount of freedom to acquire the knowledge and skills you feel you need and you will also gain a clearer picture of the teacher you want to be.

In the second year you will continue to do your placement at a secondary school for one day a week. In the third year this will increase to two days a week and you will be given more responsibilities, including teaching entire classes and setting up project work. Gradually, you will grow more independent in your role as a teacher and discover the type of school that best suits you.

Over the course of the programme, you will also come to speak, write and understand the language with increasing proficiency. You will have frequent and intensive contact with Germany and German people. In the first year of the programme, you will visit schools in the border region, where you will have a chance to take active part in classes – as a conversational partner in Dutch lessons, for example – and to see how modern language instruction is organized in practice. Teaming up with your fellow students, you will plan your own study trip to Berlin based on what you can learn there as a teacher.

English Language Requirements

You only need to take one of these language tests:

  • Minimum required score: 6

    The IELTS – or the International English Language Test System – tests your English-language abilities (writing, listening, speaking, and reading) on a scale of 1.00–9.00. The minimum IELTS score requirement refers to which Overall Band Score you received, which is your combined average score. Read more about IELTS.

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  • Minimum required score: 550

    The TOEFL – or Test OF English as a Foreign Language – offers a paper-based test (PBT). The final, overall PBT score ranges between 310 and 677, and is based on an average taken from the three test components (listening, structure, and reading). The writing part of this test is scored separately on a scale of 0-6. Read more about TOEFL (PBT).

  • Minimum required score: 80

    The TOEFL – or Test Of English as a Foreign Language – offers an internet-based test (iBT). The final, overall iBT score ranges between 0 and 120, and includes a scaled average from the four components (reading, listening, speaking, and writing). Read more about TOEFL (iBT).

Academic Requirements

(Senior) secondary school diploma with higher education entrance qualification

Diploma examples:
  • An International Baccalaureate or European Baccalaureate Diploma
  • Australia: a pass in the Australian Matriculation Examination
  • China: senior middle school diploma
  • France: Baccalaureat
  • Germany: Abitur (allgemeine Hochschulreife) or Fachhochschulreife
  • Italy: Diploma di Maturita
  • Switzerland: Maturitatszeugnis
  • The Netherlands: HAVO or VWO or MBO level 4
  • UK: GCE - A levels, 6 (I)GCSE grades with A, B or C scores
  • United States: High School diploma with college preparatory programme
If your Diploma is not on the list, or should you like further precisions, please refer to International Office.

Tuition Fee Per Year

  • EUR 8090 International
  • EUR 1984 EU/EEA

Funding

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