MASTER'S DEGREE IN TEACHING, EDUCATION AND TRAINING, PRIMARY EDUCATION

The mention is organized in three types of courses. The first one is for students who can follow face-to-face courses. It is open on the five FDE sites (Carcassonne, Nîmes, Mende, Montpellier and Perpignan) and can enroll about 580 students in M1. The regional language course is open to Perpignan for Catalan and to Carcassonne for Occitan. Apart from the UE specific to regional languages, this course is shared with the basic course in class. A third hybrid course is available for students who are unable to attend a classroom course (due to disability or illness, employees undergoing retraining, family responsibilities, etc.). It is managed by the Carcassonne site and includes a face-to-face part (four weeks of group sessions, exams and mock exams) and distance learning in various forms. It can enroll up to 45 students.

The contents of the courses are common to the five sites and the three courses. They are defined by very precise EU description sheets. Meetings bringing together the trainers of the five sites are regularly organized. Each UE is directed by an academic manager accompanied by a representative from each site. A large part of the evaluations is organized simultaneously on the five sites with common subjects. The Master's jury ensures that harmonization meetings are organized to equalize grades.

In order to ensure that the students who will enter the M2 program (where they will be likely to be entrusted with classes in responsibility, within the framework of the M2 work-study program and the M2 internship), master the fundamentals sufficiently, compensation thresholds are proposed. In S2, the mathematics and French courses and those related to the frame of reference can only be compensated after a minimum of 8. In S4, the thesis and the internship cannot be compensated.

The basic courses in French and mathematics are taught in the four semesters of the Master's program, for a volume of 30 to 40 hours per semester and per discipline. They are implemented by multidisciplinary teams including professionals.

Within the framework of the fundamentals, the French lessons are deployed according to 4 axes:

1. The development of oral and written language skills and reading skills, particularly of literary texts, with a view to professional practice and the CRPE exams.
2. The acquisition of disciplinary and epistemological knowledge in the field of linguistics (pragmatic, textual, syntactic, grammatical, orthographic, lexical...) and relating to languages, children's literature, literacies (including digital).
3. The acquisition of didactic knowledge and the construction of related professional skills in the areas of speaking, writing, language, comprehension, reading, interpretation and appropriation of literary works. Particular attention is paid to the teaching of reading in the first grade and the introduction to writing in Cycle 1.
4. The development of professional skills related to versatility (French in the disciplines).

The objectives of basic mathematics teaching are based on the mastery of mathematical contents and their didactics, with a view to preparing for the CRPE, both in the written and oral examinations, and also to designing, implementing and analyzing teaching situations, in connection with the students' internship periods.

The themes covered are based on the programs of cycles 1, 2 and 3 of the school. For example, 30% of the total time is devoted to the mastery of mathematical and didactic contents for teaching calculation and numbering, the rest being devoted to other school themes and more broadly to those of cycle 4, in connection with the preparation of the competitive examination.

Finally, the different topics covered in mathematics are linked together (for example, calculation with the teaching of magnitude and measurement, geometry) and with other disciplines (Arts, PE, History and Geography, Sciences) through training hours specifically devoted to this in order to develop the versatility of future school teachers.

Still within the framework of the fundamentals, the values and the frame of reference are worked on throughout a course of four UE, one per semester for a volume of approximately 140 hours. These courses allow students to progressively move from a knowledge of the school institution and the values that organize it, in M1, to a reflection on their implementation in the classroom and to an integration of these values in the students' professional gestures and practices, in M2.

This set of UE, quite similar in its structure and content to that offered in the Master MEEF^2nd degree, offers the opportunity to work on essential themes such as secularism, inclusive school (cf. decree of November 25, 2020), education for citizenship, school climate or the fight against all forms of discrimination and violence

While each unit focuses on one or more of these major themes, the objective is to return to these fundamental elements over the course of the four semesters, in order to go beyond the simple transmission of information to a true appropriation. The aim is to ensure that the school can accomplish "its mission of education for citizenship" and prepare "students to live in society and become responsible and free citizens; aware of the principles and rules that underpin democracy" (law of July 08, 2013). The training aims to develop professional skills as defined in the 2013 reference framework while preparing students for the CRPE interview test.

Training in the fundamentals of French, mathematics, and values and frame of reference is complemented by a course of four EUs.

In each semester, a specific UE contributes to deliver a solid training in the other disciplines of the elementary school in order to offer the most versatile and complete training possible.