Teacher Education in French

Teaching seems a little daunting at first, but you get used to it very quickly because you practice a lot with teaching models, and you give presentations. For this programme, you need to be good at French and enjoy studying a language. You must also love teaching children. In your first year, you take a trip to the French city of Rouen. You stay with a host family and undertake excursions with your study mates during the day. I highly recommend it!

Studying in the Netherlands means being a part of an international and multicultural environment, where the tolerance, the respect and open-mindedness are the most valuable characteristics. As an international student, my biggest fear before coming to the Netherlands was the incapability of communicating with the Dutch community, also not finding enough choices within the degrees totally taught in English. Nevertheless, it was a relief to know that the Netherlands has a wide range of internationally recognized degrees in English. Moreover, the level of English speaking locals is very high, especially in the big cities such as Utrecht, which makes life very convenient and pleasant for all the international students.

The programme Teacher Education in French is divided into two parts: the French part related to the grammar, the literature and the communication, and the English part which is mainly about the pedagogics, the teaching methods and professional development. This mix of languages adds to the innovative methods of teaching that made this programme very suitable for me. One of the most important points that I would like to highlight are the teachers. At HU, the teachers are highly respectful, interested, competent, experienced, modest and ready to help whenever and wherever you need them.