Secondary Education (Campus Turnhout and Vorselaar)

Secondary Education

Course content

• Choosing subjects
  In the current teacher training programme, students get quite a lot of freedom concerning the choice of their subjects, i.e. the subjects they will teach in secondary education. But they have to observe the rules of the game.
• General Subjects
  You have to take three subjects together. All vertical and diagonal combinations are accepted. Subjects that are on the same horizontal line cannot be combined. Possible clusters are for example: Dutch-Economics-Biology, Biology-Geography-Religion, French-English-Economics. Combinations that are not allowed, for instance: Dutch-French-English, Mathematics-Biology-History. From the second year on you will study one of your subjects in depth. The number of credits and the hours for that subject will increase. In principle you can choose this in-depth study in function of your interest or your strong points. When you choose a subject with an asterisk in your package, you are however obliged to study that subject in depth. You can also opt for an additional subject - German or Chemistry - as a study in depth. You can read about the possibilities in the respective tables. Chemistry, however, can only be attended by students who attend Biology as well as Physics.

Work placement
In the third year you are about half of the year “in the field”. You will get more freedom to choose your teaching practice schools, so that you can even go back to your own secondary school as a candidate-teacher.

Job opportunities
You can opt for a job in the first four years of secondary education (Vocational Secondary Education goes up to 7 years), special needs education, adult education or sectors in which social skills are important.