Teaching activities

Courses offered at the bachelor’s and master’s level

• Psychology of school learning

This course is based on a didactic and multidimensional approach to school learning and takes stock of current psychological knowledge in reading, writing, calculation, counting, problem solving… By presenting research, this course addresses in particular the issues of transfer, motivation and work methodologies used by children and adolescents to learn.

• Neuroeducation

This course was born from the meeting between cognitive psychology, neurosciences and education sciences. In addition to describing and taking a critical and documented look at the main neurocognitive mechanisms involved in school learning, this course leads students to identify and distinguish neuromyths in order to highlight the erroneous elements they contain. The contents offered in this course make it possible to best adapt the methods used according to the natural activity of the cerebral functions of the learners.

• Didactics of early learning disciplines

Based on a specific theme linked to an early learning discipline (sciences, geography, arts, etc.), this course aims in particular to develop theoretical mastery of didactic concepts in a multidisciplinary approach, to define the link that must be made between the didactics of early learning disciplines and, on the one hand, assessment in the broad sense of the term and, on the other hand, the teaching and training curriculum.

Courses given at AESS (aggregation) and at CAPAES

• Approach to the adolescent in an educational context
• School life and group management
• Preparatory course for school life
• Approach to young adults and adults in an educational context
• Psychology of learning for teaching

The members of the Teacher Training department are regularly called upon by external organizations to offer training or conferences related to the aforementioned areas of expertise.