Master MEEF 2nd degré - Mathématiques at Université de Perpignan Via Domitia

The Master MEEF 2nd degré Mathématiques is part of the UPVD's Métiers de l'Enseignement, de l'Éducation et de la Formation master, run with the INSPE of the Montpellier academy, aimed at mastery of disciplinary knowledge and of didactic and pedagogical skills. It trains future secondary-school teachers over two years and prepares for the CAPES and CAPLP recruitment competitions.

Faculty: INSPE - Académie de Montpellier (UPVD)  |  Department: MEEF  |  Duration: 2 years (4 semesters, 120 ECTS)  |  Study mode: full-time (M2 alternating placement for contract teachers); taught in French  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Perpignan, Occitanie, France

What you will study

Four components: disciplinary and didactic teaching; a common core (pedagogy, school life, laïcité and republican values, inclusion); practice-oriented teaching with school placements (M1: observation and supervised practice, 3 weeks each semester; M2: a year-long placement, alternating at one-third time for contract teachers recruited by the rectorate at the end of M1, otherwise an immersion and supervised practice placement); an introduction to education research with a dissertation defence in M2.

Career pathways

Secondary-school teacher after the CAPES or CAPLP competitions (written admissibility in March-April and oral admission in June-July of M2; registration for the competition is separate from the master enrolment); winners are full-time trainee civil servants the following year; doctorate in ED 544.

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