The 4-semester Master of Education BK Teacher Training in Technics is a consecutive degree programme that builds on the Bachelor's degree programme with the corresponding teacher training option.

It deepens the subject-specific, subject didactic and educational science knowledge and methodological skills as well as the school and teaching-related professional pedagogical knowledge in specific courses. In addition, basic competences in organisation and procedures of quality assurance are acquired.

The degree programme qualifies students in particular to take up the preparatory service (Referendariat) for the corresponding teaching post as well as to take up employment in the following areas:

• Universities/ colleges (research and teaching, doctorate)
• Construction industry/construction trade (personnel development and in-company initial and continuing training)
• Public and private training and further education institutions (adult vocational education)
• Institutions, clubs and associations (initial and continuing vocational education and training)
• Vocational training centres and vocational promotion centres (vocational rehabilitation)
• Publishing houses (technical editing, development of teaching and learning media)

Study plan

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Study plan

You can find the examination regulations for your study program here: Examination regulations according to study programs

Study plans as well as information about the modules in the study program can be found in the module database: VDB teacher training in technics

Information material

Prospective students will find an overview of the study program here as well as FAQs.

Current information on exams, practice and research project selection, and other relevant topics can be found here.

Further information about the M.Ed.Teacher Training in Technics can be found at: Teacher training in Technics

Study plan as well as information about the modules in the study program can be found in the module database: VDB teacher training in technics

Admission

Admission requirements

Prerequisite for admission to the Master's programme for the teaching profession at grammar schools and comprehensive schools is the successful completion of the following

• a Bachelor's degree programme with the teacher training options Gymnasien/Gesamtschulen (grammar schools/comprehensive schools) or Berufskolleg (vocational college) with 2 teaching subjects at the University of Duisburg-Essen or, subject to the condition in accordance with sentence 4, a Bachelor's degree programme at the University of Duisburg-Essen consisting of two subjects approved for combination in accordance with § 4 Para. 2 LZV, or
• a relevant course of study of at least three years' duration in two subjects approved for combination in accordance with § 4 Para. 2 LZV and educational science and subject didactics content at another higher education institution within the scope of the Higher Education Framework Act with a Bachelor's degree or a comparable degree, provided the examination board has determined the equivalence of this degree, or
• a relevant course of study of at least three years in two subjects admitted for combination according to § 4 Para. 2 LZV and educational science and subject didactic contents at a higher education institution outside the scope of the Higher Education Framework Act with a Bachelor's degree or a comparable degree, provided that the examination board has determined the equivalence of the course of study and the degree as well as a level of the degree which corresponds to that of a degree at a higher education institution within the scope of the Higher Education Framework Act.

You can read about the admission requirements in the Common Examination Regulations for the Master's degree programme with the teaching option Gymnasien and Gesamtschulen.

If, at the time of the application deadline for the Master's programme, no degree certificate according to Para. 2 GPO is available, the applicant can be admitted provisionally on the condition that proof is provided that all examination results have been achieved, that the requirements of Para. 3 GPO are fulfilled on the basis of the examination results already assessed and that the certificate according to Para. 2 GPO is submitted subsequently by 15 December or 15 June.

The subject examination regulations of the Master's degree programme may also contain special regulations for admission to the degree programme.

Admission

Admission is possible for both the winter semester and the summer semester.
This degree programme is currently free of admission if the above-mentioned admission requirements are met.

Please enquire in good time before the application deadline in the student registrar's office.

Enrolment can be carried out during the enrolment period in the student registrar's office (in the case of Master's degree programmes with open admission until the end of the lecture period).

Prospective students from non-EU countries should enquire at the International Office.

Language Skills

The language of instruction at the University of Duisburg-Essen is German (except in the English-language programs). Therefore, you must have good German language skills if you want to study successfully. The majority of foreign applicants must pass the "Deutsche Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang" (DSH 2 level; with some exceptions) before beginning their studies.

• German nationals (persons who have acquired their higher education entrance qualification in Germany or at a German school abroad) do not require any special proof of German language skills.
• Citizens of an EU member state (and citizens of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) or German citizens with a foreign educational qualification, as well as
• Citizens of a country outside the EU with a foreign university entrance qualification must pass the "Deutsche Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang" (DSH 2 level) or the TestDaF (TDN 4) before the begin of their studies.

Information on the German Language Test for University Entrance (DSH)

Further language skills

Knowledge of two foreign languages must be proven by the time the preparatory service begins. (as a rule, through university entrance qualification).

• This is not an admission requirement for the degree programme; proof must be provided when registering for the preparatory service; it is usually fulfilled by the university entrance qualification.
• Those who can only prove that they have a foreign language with the subject-linked higher education entrance qualification from the vocational college must acquire and prove a second foreign language during their studies.
• Those who did not learn German as their first language but acquired their higher education entrance qualification in German only have to prove knowledge of one further language.