In England, teachers must obtain qualified teacher status by completing a bachelor's degree, passing skills tests in literacy and numeracy, observing classroom lessons, interviewing for a teacher training program, and completing a one-year initial teacher training program. In France, teachers study for five years at university with the last two years focusing on teaching, then must pass a competitive exam to obtain their license. They may then be assigned to teach anywhere in France. In Germany, teachers complete a bachelor's and master's degree in education, and a one to two-year teacher training program where they may be assigned to multiple schools, after which they are prepared to teach two to three subjects.

1. Being a teacher
How do different countries train their
teachers?
A view to England, France and Germany

2. England
To teach in the UK you need to gain qualified
teacher status (QTS). The following steps are
therefor mandatory:
• You need a school degree and a GCSE grade C
or equivalent in maths and English – and
science if you want to be a primary teacher.
• You will need to take a professional skills tests.
This test is a numeracy and literacy skills tests.

3. England
• You need to show that you have done some class observing
lessons.
• You have to pass an interview with the teacher training program.
• You can register for a teacher training program (called ITT), as
soon as you have proven your school degree, you have passed
the skill test, taken observing classes and the interview. The ITT
takes one year to complete.
• You can always choose where you want to have your ITT and in
which school you want to teach later, as long as you have the
adequate diploma.
• Besides, an UK teacher has only one school subject.
Source: http://www.education.gov.uk

4. England
Example of a QTS
Numeracy Test
Source:http://dawhois.com/www/
qtsnumeracytest.co.uk.html

5. France
• To teach in France you need to study 5 years at
university.
• Only the last two years prepare for the job. In the
end you will have to do some kind of
competitional exams, the so called “concours”.
• The fist university diploma you can get, is called
“Licence”. If you habe passed the “licence” you
can register for a Master.

6. France
• The competitional and final exams (concours) are very hard. In
2012 there where 17.400 candidates for 4.601 posts.
• If one has passed the concours, there will be an other year of
teacher training. Hereby the trainee can be sent to a school
anywhere in France.
• Even when the teacher education is finished, the teacher
can’t choose the school where he or she wants to teach.
• Besides, a teacher in France will teach only one school
subject.
Source: http://www.letudiant.fr/etudes/secteurs/enseignement_7.html

7. France
How to become a
teacher in France -
infographic
Source:http://www.lille.iufm.fr/local/cache-
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8. Germany
• Each federal state in Germany has its own plan
for the education of teachers.
• Mainly, after 3 years of study, you can get a
Bachelor of Education. After 2 more years you
can get the Master of Education.
• German teachers are perpared to teach between
two and three school subjects. There is a presice
combination of subjects which can be taken. For
example in Bavaria it would not be possible to
teach Chemistry, Latin and Sport.

9. Germany
• Having finished the studies, there has to be done a
teacher training program. This program varies in
time and effort, again depending in which federal
state you are applying.
• The teacher training can take between one or two
years. The trainee can be send to any public school
of his federal state. Sometimes the trainees have to
change schools several times during the program.

10. Germany
Facts about
teachers in
Germany
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