Master MEEF Professeur de Lycées et Collèges Lettres Modernes

The aim of the two-year Masters course is to prepare students for the competitive teaching exams.

Contents of M1 modern literature courses

You will be able to take preparation courses for the first eligibility test for the external CAPES at Master 2 level (literary history course covering the works on the CAPES de lettres syllabus). You will be able to take preparation courses for the second entrance exam for the external CAPES at Master 2 level: lexical semantics, grammar, stylistics and didactics. You will be able to take preparatory courses for the lesson test, the first admission test for the external CAPES, in subject didactics courses: leading a reading and writing session, teaching literature, teaching drama, implementing the collège and lycée syllabuses, teaching French in multilingual classes, support for work experience. You will have access to cross-disciplinary courses on issues linked to teaching practice: secularism, gender equality, inclusion, classroom management, historical, legal and ethical approaches to the profession. If you wish to prepare for the internal CAPES or the internal CAPES for assignments in French Guiana, you can also attend the above courses. Appropriate assessments may be offered.

M2 modern literature course content

You will be able to take a preparatory course for the first admissibility test of the external CAPES, focusing on works that have recently been added to the syllabus. You will also have access to a refresher course on works that have been on the syllabus in previous years. You will be able to take preparation courses for the second qualifying test of the external CAPES: lexical semantics, grammar, stylistics and didactics. You will be able to take courses in preparation for the lesson test, the first admission test for the external CAPES, in subject didactics courses: teaching literature, preparation for the first oral examination, language and culture of Antiquity, analysis of practice, continuing to learn to read at collège, research in didactics. You will have access to cross-disciplinary courses linked to issues of concern to teachers: secularism, equality between girls and boys, inclusion, sociological and psychological approaches, QSV. You will be able to take preparatory courses for the second admission test for the CAPES. If you wish to prepare for the internal CAPES, internal CAPES with an assignment in French Guiana, you will also be able to attend the courses mentioned above. You will have to carry out research work, including an experimental approach, over the two years, leading to the writing of a dissertation and its defence in M2.

Internship

The Master 2 can be done on a sandwich course for students whose applications are selected by the Rectorat; in this case, the student has a class to teach and is supervised by a tutor in his or her school. As part of the regular curriculum, M1 students do a SOPA (Stage d'Observation et de Pratique Accompagnée - Observation and Supported Practice Internship) for the equivalent of 6 weeks and M2 students for the equivalent of 12 weeks (i.e. 18 weeks over the two years) in a school with a tutor. The work placement may be structured, massed or mixed (see Work placement timetable). The first placement in M1 is based primarily on observation; the other placements are accompanied practice placements. Students involved in the AED process are in their tutor's classes every Thursday in M1 and have a class to teach in M2.