TEACHER TRAINING - BASIC AND SPECIALIST TRAINING

Basic Training
With the academic year 2005/2006, teacher training is offered by the University of Luxembourg, Faculty of Arts, Social and Educational Sciences. The studies aspire to train teachers for early years education, primary and pre-primary schools, the preparatory stream of technical secondary school and for special needs education. The certification is a “professional bachelor in educational sciences”.

Admission conditions:
- The candidates must have a Luxembourg’s or an international “baccalaureate” (school   leaving examinations leading to university entrance qualification), or an equivalent certificate.
- The access to the studies is regulated by a competitive examination.

Aims of the training:
The aim of teacher training is reconsidered according to the following aspects:
- “learning to learn” instead of “teaching to teach”
- “a learning community” instead of “an isolated agent”
- “a responsible actor”  instead of  “a passive agent”
- “developing” instead of “reproducing”

Fields of training:
The training is based on 4 fields:

1. Multi-disciplinary learning:
       Pedagogical, psychological, sociological and didactical dimensions.
2. Field of research:
       Development of a research approach concerning practical experience. 
       acquiring methods and tools
3. Field of practice:
       The new training aims to combine university studies and practices.
       Thanks to practical periods, the student can develop professional competences.
4. Field of social and professional development:
        Building up a professional identity by working on attitudes and behaviour.

Professional competences:
- Developing a professional approach;
- Assuming a role of social actor;
- Developing an ethic approach on teaching;
- Considering the diversity of the pupils;
- Promoting multi-linguistic identities;
- Planning and managing a class group;
- Exploiting the technologies of information and communication;
- Conceiving and guiding learning situations;
- Valuing the progression and the degree of competence acquisition.

Remedial Teacher Training
The training of remedial teachers is not offered in Luxembourg:
The initial training of all teachers contains elements of special pedagogy.Persons who are interested in a specialisation can follow training in Germany or Switzerland. For more information, see the National Overview of Germany or Switzerland.