Study Programmes 2015-2016
AESS2218-1  
Special didactics in biology : placements (2nd part)
  • Teaching placements
  • Reflexive practical work
  • Extra-scholar teaching activities
Duration :
Teaching placements : 20h Internship
Reflexive practical work : 5h Pr
Extra-scholar teaching activities : 10h Pr
Number of credits :
Master in biochemistry and molecular and cell biology (120 ECTS)5
Master in biochemistry and molecular and cell biology (120 ECTS)5
Master in biology of organisms and ecology (120 ECTS)5
Master in biology of organisms and ecology (120 ECTS)5
Agrégé de l'enseignement secondaire supérieur5
Lecturer :
Teaching placements : Marie-Noëlle Hindryckx
Reflexive practical work : Marie-Noëlle Hindryckx
Extra-scholar teaching activities : Marie-Noëlle Hindryckx
Coordinator :
Marie-Noëlle Hindryckx
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
All year long
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
Teaching placements
Practice teaching is made up of important steps in the progressive acquisition of teaching skills. Students working on course preparation and related tasks must apply themselves as diligently as possible to these tasks. The teaching intern must sign a statement promising to act with respect toward the institution, the intern director and the students he or she is given to instruct, in moral terms as well as pedagogical terms. This promise is a declaration on the part of the intern which will be made available to students, and which must be signed at the beginning of the year. Internships with teaching are opportunities for students to be exposed to different kinds of teaching, different ways of presenting material in class, and different kinds of publics (students).
Reflexive practical work
Students will be able to gain perspective with regard to their own teaching practice during teaching exercises and practice teaching; there will be many occasions for students to analyze their own practices in order to improve.
Extra-scholar teaching activities
This activity is participative, according to the student's choice between three possibilities 
Learning outcomes of the course :
Teaching placements
The principal objective of practice teaching is to put the future teacher in situations that he or she will encounter in professional practice. These teaching situations will lead future teachers to acquire skills as they pursue their initial training for the profession of teacher.
After practice classes are over, the student will be able to prepare a complete lesson plan for a class, to demonstrate a willingness to reflect upon his or her practice, and to study that practice in order to improve it.
Reflexive practical work
Upon completion of the course students should be able to: -analyse their practice in order to improve it, alone and in a group; -analyse the practice of others in order to enrich their vision of teaching in the sciences; -take into account their own representations of the profession in order to enable them to develop.
Extra-scholar teaching activities
The objective of these activities is for students to encounter the macroscopic context of teaching and the school; to look at students and their education in a different way; and to learn to work in a system.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Teaching placements
Having followed the DIDAC 1 part of the course.
In order to be allowed to enter the teacher training programme, students must sign an internship protocol and must have participated on a regular basis in classes and exercises (attendance is verified) and have completed the active practice stages of DIDAC 1. If in the course of activities a lack of preparation is observed the faculty for special didactics in biology reserves the right to require individual students to remedy this lack and to demand that additional conditions be met prior to that student being allowed to practice teach.
Reflexive practical work
none
Extra-scholar teaching activities
Activities' choice must be submitted for approval by a didactics specialist.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Teaching placements
pedagogical monitor can be helpers in order to contribute to the construction of didactic sequences for each student's benefit, depending on what is asked for and the subjects involved.
Reflexive practical work
Return periods for stages and practical exercises will furnish opportunities for working on the practice of reflection with students.
Extra-scholar teaching activities
Students must choose one activity between 3 proposed and following it until the end 
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Teaching placements
Internships are scheduled during periods when regular courses are not in session. Second year: after Christmas, 4 weeks, at the time of the Easter holiday, 4 weeks.
Students choose their internship directors from a list furnished by the Special Didactics Service for biology. Students will have a different supervisor for each of three stages of their training. Students must switch types of teacher training for a minimum of 5 course periods (50') (from general teaching to professional or technique of qualification). Students will fulfil their stage requirements in at least two different schools. Students will make their exact internship schedule available one week before the beginning of the period, with the help of an ad hoc form to be filled out. Hours spent doing practice teaching, etc., which are not scheduled in this manner in a timely fashion will not be counted. The student who's teaching in a school could only validate 10 course periods in his school, in his own classes or not, according to didactic teachers' advice. Each student will be observed four times during stages by didactics specialists and eventually by didactics generalists (one visit).
Reflexive practical work
Time spent in reflection on practice is not separated from time in class or time spent doing exercises: post-internship discussions, analysis of shared practices, and discussion of practices are opportunities to work on this.
Extra-scholar teaching activities
Chosen by the student, throughout the training year. According to instructions.
Recommended or required readings :
Teaching placements
Notes are prepared and handed out to students during class. The didactic contract and documents needed for internship activities and various other activities can be downloaded from MyULg.
Reflexive practical work
Notes are prepared and handed out to students during class. The didactic contract and documents needed for internship activities and various other activities can be downloaded from MyULg
Extra-scholar teaching activities
Notes are prepared and handed out to students during class. The didactic contract and documents needed for internship activities and various other activities can be downloaded from MyULg
Assessment methods and criteria :
Teaching placements
During the internship the student will be visited four times by the members of the Special Didactic Service for biology. These visits of the internship will be for purposes of certification. The purpose of the visits is to observe the context of work being performed, the practice teacher's strengths and weaknesses, and to verify progress in professional ability as a teacher (construction of professional identity). After the observation is concluded, the student will be able to discuss, if it's possible, any problems or questions with the didactic specialists. The grade for that part of the stage will be arrived at using a grid of criteria which will be shared with students and which can be downloaded from MyULg. Written justifications will be given to students later on, along with the grade given. The internship stage grades will be calculated according from the grades from the didactic specialists (certificative visits 3 and 4) plus the opinion of the intern supervisor(s) No second session will be convened for the internships.
Reflexive practical work
The evaluation for reflective practice will be a training grade which will continue throughout exercises. The reflexive part of internship report will be the basis for a more formal evaluation. 
Extra-scholar teaching activities
Report will be done in accordance with instructions that can be downloaded from MyULg
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Teaching placements
none
Reflexive practical work
none
Extra-scholar teaching activities
It's important that the student respects his engagement until the end of the activity
Contacts :
Teaching placements
Teachers :
Marie-Noëlle HINDRYCKX MN.Hindryckx@ulg.ac.be

assistants :
Mélanie Laschet melanie.laschet@ulg.ac.be
Corentin Poffé corentin.poffe@ulg.ac.be

Quartier Agora, 7 allée du Six Août B6a bureau -2/118b B-4000 Liège 04 366 34 89

Teaching instructors:

- Mme Lespagnard -  bernadette.lespagnard@hel.be - Mme L. Hogenboom -  laurehogenboom@yahoo.fr - M. V. Lauria - cblauria@hotmail.com
- M. Gustin - didgus78@yahoo.fr
- Mme Detaille - lie667@msn.com
Reflexive practical work
Teachers : 
Marie-Noëlle HINDRYCKX MN.Hindryckx@ulg.ac.be

assistants :
Mélanie Laschet melanie.laschet@ulg.ac.be
Corentin Poffé corentin.poffe@ulg.ac.be

Quartier Agora, 7 allée du Six Août B6a bureau -2/118b B-4000 Liège 04 366 34 89

teaching instructors:

- Mme Lespagnard -  bernadette.lespagnard@hel.be - Mme L. Hogenboom -  laurehogenboom@yahoo.fr - M. V. Lauria - cblauria@hotmail.com
- M. Gustin - didgus78@yahoo.fr
- Mme Detaille - lie667@msn.com
Extra-scholar teaching activities
Teachers : 
Marie-Noëlle HINDRYCKX MN.Hindryckx@ulg.ac.be

assistants :
Mélanie Laschet melanie.laschet@ulg.ac.be
Corentin Poffé corentin.poffe@ulg.ac.be

Quartier Agora, 7 allée du Six Août B6a bureau -2/118b B-4000 Liège 04 366 34 89

Teaching instructors:

- Mme Lespagnard -  bernadette.lespagnard@hel.be - Mme L. Hogenboom -  laurehogenboom@yahoo.fr - M. V. Lauria - cblauria@hotmail.com
- M. Gustin - didgus78@yahoo.fr
- Mme Detaille - lie667@msn.com