Licence Primary School Teaching (LPE) at Université d'Orléans

The Licence professorat des écoles (LPE) is a three-year-level (Bac+3) multidisciplinary degree that prepares students to become primary school teachers. It prepares for the competitive recruitment exam for primary school teachers and for continuing into the Master Enseignement et Éducation (M2E) professorat des écoles. It is delivered by INSPÉ Centre Val de Loire in Chartres, Châteauroux, Orléans and Tours, as initial or continuing education.

Faculty: INSPÉ Centre Val de Loire  |  Study mode: full-time; taught in French (Chartres, Châteauroux, Orléans and Tours)  |  Location: Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire, France

What you will study

The programme consolidates French, mathematics and all primary school subjects (sciences, history-geography, PE, languages), and introduces pedagogy for nursery and elementary levels, the values of the Republic and the functioning of the education system. It is organised in blocks: subject knowledge for primary teaching (1110h, 125 ECTS), analysis of teaching and learning contexts (120h, 15 ECTS), institutional context of the profession (120h, 15 ECTS), professional project (120h, with at least 10 weeks of school placements) and territorial adaptation (100h, 10 ECTS).

Career pathways

Graduates who pass the competitive exams for primary teacher, secondary teacher or conseiller principal d'éducation enter the Master Enseignement et Éducation (M2E), a two-year programme alternating university teaching and field placements.

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