French LOSSTT-IN-MATH System

TRAINING TO TEACH MATHEMATICS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL IN FRANCE

Training is unfolding during two years:

1. First year is focused on the preparation of a competitive examination.
   The examination evaluates mathematical knowledge of candidates.

2. The second year is devoted to obtain and develop professional skills.

The organisation of this second year is set out in the table below.
It joins together individual training in school and training by groups out of school.

1. Training in school (around 250h)

   • Each trainee is responsible for at least one class in one of the two cycles of French secondary education system (lower or upper) during the whole year.
     He is supervised by a mathematic teacher of the same school.

   • He has also a training period (40h), in another teacher’s classroom in the other cycle, and also an observation period in primary school.

2. Training out of school (around 120h)

   • In mathematics: classrooms practices, mastering contents to teach, ICTs, professional record achievement.

   • In general subjects connected to their teaching.