BEd Chemie, Lehramt GyGe (Chemistry teaching) at Paderborn University

Practice-oriented teaching degree in chemistry with laboratory and theory components, for students who enjoy experimenting and explaining chemical relationships and want to guide young people in practical experiments; it links chemical ways of thinking and working with later school work. Bachelor of Education teaching degree for grammar schools and comprehensive schools (Gymnasium und Gesamtschule).

Faculty: Natural sciences; teacher education (Lehramt)  |  Duration: 6 semesters (3 years); 72 of 180 ECTS in the degree  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught  |  Intake: Summer and winter semesters (winter semester recommended)  |  Location: Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

What you will study

Subject-science courses teach the foundations of areas such as organic chemistry through lectures, exercises and lab practicals; a learning room with older student tutors supports study. Didactics courses cover theories of learning chemistry and examples from school practice, with school experiments playing a special role, and the focus shifts from subject science to didactics over the degree. The 180-credit degree comprises subject content and didactics in this teaching subject (72 credits); subject content and didactics in a second teaching subject (72 credits); educational sciences (18 credits); German for pupils with a migration background (6 credits); bachelor's thesis (12 credits). Practical elements are an orientation and aptitude placement of 25 days and a work-field placement of at least four weeks.

Career pathways

The B.Ed. is followed by the M.Ed., which completes the first phase of teacher training and leads into school service; a non-school career is also possible, often after gaining out-of-school experience or a subject-specific master's.

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