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Master Degree in Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate Teacher Training, Vocational Training and Language Teaching
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- ModalityHybrid learning format
- LanguagesCatalan
- Duration1 year full time (60 ECTS). It can be taken in two years subject to acceptance by the master degree coordinators
- Credits60
- Dateoctober 2024
- Planning
from Monday to Friday, 6pm to 9pm (2 or 3 days of class depending on the specialty and semester).
- Places30
- Location
La Salle-URL - Carrer de Sant Joan de la Salle, 42. 08022 Barcelona
Blanquerna-URL - Carrer del Císter, 34. 08022 Barcelona
Complex Esportiu Hospitalet Nord - Avinguda de Manuel Azaña, 21. 08906 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona
- Faculty
School of Psychology, Education and Sport Science
Who is it for?
The master degree is aimed at people who have passed a diploma, a bachelor degree or degree studies and who wish to teach at secondary education level or vocational training. The teaching specialty that can be accessed depends on the qualification required by the regulations for admission to the teaching profession:
Secondary education teaching staff, official language school teaching staff and art and design teaching staff: PhD qualification, engineering, architecture, bachelor degree, or equivalent for teaching purposes.
Teaching staff for technical vocational training and teaching staff for arts and design workshops: diploma qualification, technical architecture, technical engineering, or equivalent for teaching purposes.
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Improve your qualifications
This master's degree accredits the pedagogical and instructional training required by’Order ECI/3858/2007, of December 27, qualifying’students for the teaching professions of’Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate Teacher Training, Vocational Training and Language’Teaching. It’is taught at the School of Psychology,’Education and’Sports Sciences at Blanquerna-URL and La Salle-URL and provides the necessary tools for classroom management’and the management of conflicting situations arising, with a view to foster values and attitudes of cooperation, tolerance and effort between’students and to accompany and guide young people in their continuing education and job placement.
Acquire knowledge in the field of psychology, pedagogy and didactics so that, at the end of the master degree, students can competently perform teaching functions in a context of diversity.
- Know the curricular content of the subjects related to the corresponding teaching specialization and also the body of didactic knowledge on the respective teaching and learning processes. For vocational training, knowledge of the respective professions must be included. - Plan, develop and assess the teaching and learning process by promoting educational processes that facilitate the acquisition of the skills specific to the corresponding teaching, taking into account the level, prior training and guidance of students, both individually and in collaboration with other teachers and professionals at the center. - Search, obtain, process and communicate information (oral, printed, audiovisual, digital or multimedia), transform it into knowledge and apply it to the teaching and learning processes in the subjects of the specialization studied. - Specify the curriculum’to be’implemented in a teaching center, participating in its collective planning; develop and apply didactic methodologies, both group and personalized, adapted to the diversity of the student body. - Design and develop learning spaces with special attention to equity, emotional and values education, equal rights and opportunities between men and women, citizen training and respect for human rights that foster life in society, decision-making and building a sustainable future. - Acquire strategies to stimulate the student's effort and promote their ability to learn for themselves and with others, and develop thinking and decision-making skills that facilitate personal autonomy, confidence and initiative. - Know the processes of interaction and communication in the classroom, to master the skills and social abilities necessary to encourage learning and coexistence in the classroom, and to address problems of discipline and conflict resolution. - Design and carry out formal and informal activities that contribute to making the center a place of participation and culture in its local environment; to develop the functions of student tutoring and guidance in a collaborative and coordinated manner, to participate in the assessment, research and innovation of the teaching and learning processes. - Know the regulations and the’institutional organization of the education system and the models of quality improvement applicable to educational centers. - Know and analyze the historical characteristics of the teaching profession, its current situation and the perspectives of’interrelation with the social reality of each time period. - Inform and advise families on the teaching and learning process and on the personal, academic and professional guidance of their children.
Great scope for professional growth
The master degree has three tracks:
Physical education
English
When you choose the Master Degree in Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate Teacher Training, Vocational Training and Language Teaching you're choosing
A guaranteed future career
- Large number of hours of internship in the Blanquerna network of schools and centers
- Faculty with 14 years of experience teaching the master degree
- A master degree with an excellent position in the ranking of master degrees in Education
- Competence training aimed at quality teaching practice in schools
Key data
hours of curricular internship
in Catalonia, according to the El Mundo ranking
in all of Spain, according to the El Mundo ranking
in employability rate, according to EUC.
A unique methodology based on personalized learning
According to Royal Decree 1393/2007, graduate studies must provide the student with both basic and sufficient academic training for professional practice and qualify them to continue studying and pursue a master degree. Master degree studies include advanced specialized and multidisciplinary training, the aim of which will be academic and professional specialization or embarking on research activities. Master degrees are required to access PhD studies, which are aimed at providing advanced training in the field of research and lead to preparing a PhD thesis and obtaining a PhD qualification. The master degrees have been adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and are structured in ECTS credits (European Credit Transfer System), which make it possible to share a compatible credit system, comparable criteria and methodologies and a duration similar to that of European qualifications, with the aim of facilitating and promoting the mobility and incorporation of students into the European workforce. Master degree studies have a minimum of 60 credits and a maximum of 120 credits. This equates to one to two academic years. ECTS credits are characterized by being student-centered to ensure the student leads their own learning process. Each credit is equivalent to 25 hours of training and is used to count class hours (theoretical and practical), personal study, participation in seminars, assignments, external internships and assessment tests. During an academic year, a student can get a maximum of 60 full-time credits and 30 if they have a part-time job. The master degrees at Blanquerna-URL School of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences are aimed at diploma and bachelor degree holders and graduates, as well as professionals in need of continuing education. Our master degrees are geared towards professionalization and address subjects and materials that require specialized treatment. Our School's master degrees feature:
Faculty
Made up of researchers and professors, both from the School and from other universities in the State, and by active professionals of recognized prestige. All teachers are practicing experts in the field of study.
Programs
With institutional and business support, coordinated by renowned researchers and professionals.
Limited number of students per program
To guarantee the quality of the teaching, participation and personalized treatment. Agreements and contracts with institutions and companies that guarantee internships or opportunities for professional development and research.
Agreements and contracts
With institutions and companies that guarantee internships or opportunities for professional development and research.
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Training in line with your interests and future career
Acquire knowledge in the field of psychology, pedagogy and didactics so that, at the end of the master degree, students can competently perform teaching functions in a context of diversity.
Credits
First | ||||||
Compulsory | 35 | |||||
Optional | 25 | |||||
Total | 60 |
Subject | Credits | Academic type | |
First semester | |||
Development of the person, education and society | 15 | Compulsory | |
Annual | |||
Advanced training for the teaching of English | 25 | Optional | |
Practicum and masters' final project | 20 | Compulsory | |
Credits
First | ||||||
Compulsory | 35 | |||||
Optional | 25 | |||||
Total | 60 |
Subject | Credits | Academic type | |
First semester | |||
Development of the person, education and society | 15 | Compulsory | |
Annual | |||
Advanced training for the teaching of Physical Education | 25 | Optional | |
Practicum and masters' final project | 20 | Compulsory | |
Credits
First | ||||||
Compulsory | 35 | |||||
Optional | 25 | |||||
Total | 60 |
Subject | Credits | Academic type | |
First semester | |||
Development of the person, education and society | 15 | Compulsory | |
Annual | |||
Advanced Training for the teaching of Technology | 25 | Optional | |
Practicum and masters' final project | 20 | Compulsory | |
Internships, an experience to introduce you to the labor market
The master's degree students will do internships at the centers selected by the Department of’Education, and will be distributed preferably by criteria of territorial proximity and in morning or afternoon shifts, taking into account the interests or needs of the student as much as possible.
The internship schedule and calendar will be agreed with each training center and will cover two periods: From the last week of November to mid-December and between the months of January and May. Students who are already working as teachers (in public or private schools) will not be able to do the internship at their center and another’center will be found for them to do the master's degree internship.
- The’student carries out 210 on-site hours of internship in a classroom (or department) of’an accredited collaborating center of the master degree. These internships are overseen by a supervising teacher.
- Along with the in-person sessions at the center, the master degree seminar is held at the School, with a minimum of 20 hours of group work per semester, facilitated by a professor-advisor. The task is complemented by conferences and specific complementary seminars that are’offered each academic year.
- Finally, the’corresponding 14 credits are completed with the preparation of the internship report and the Master Degree Thesis.
The MA’Curriculum gives internships a central role in the training of students. The’general objective of the Internship is to obtain direct knowledge of professional practice and obtain the skills for its correct development.
a) In-person work in the classroom:
- Seminars. Case study, problem-solving.
- Practical class. Internships in the classroom.
b) Supervised work outside the classroom: External internships, tutoring and supervised work.
c) Independent work by the student: Individual study and independent work, project-oriented learning.
The Master Degree Thesis, a prelude to entering the labor market
Students will’have to prepare and deliver a project that will be overseen by a professor of the master's degree within the framework of the Practicum Seminar and the Master Degree Thesis carried out in the second semester. This project will be publicly defended before’an assessment’panel made up of faculty members from the master's degree program. It is recommended that one of the members of the panel be from outside the master degree course, but they must be a member of’a graduate studies program at the School of Psychology,’Education and’Sport Science at Blanquerna-URL.
The’student will have ten minutes to defend the project. They will have to prioritize the issues they consider most relevant to the work and summarize them in a clear, precise, and complete manner.After the arguments’are presented, the’student will have to respond to observations, comments, and questions made by the members of the panel. The master's degree project’will be written in Catalan, however, with’a prior written request from the director, the master degree academic management team (EGA) may authorize it to be presented in another language. In this case, a summary of the project will be required in Catalan.
The Final Master Degree Thesis is worth 6 ECTS within the Master Degree in Teacher Training overall, which means a dedication of between 150 and 180 hours of student’work.
The Master's Degree Thesis is open choice and the aim is for’students to present an original and innovative proposal related to the educational areas in question (Secondary Education, baccalaureate or vocational training). Seminar tutors can guide, profile and advise on the proposals received or make possible thesis suggestions. Through the module "Internship and the Final Master Degree Thesis" all the competencies and contents included in the Generic Module and in the Specific Module will be listed to correlate them to the action-reflection contextualized in real practice in the case of the Internship, and with an informed reflection, in the case of the master degree thesis, with the support of qualified and experienced professionals who will perform the duties of advisor.
The assessment criteria for the master's degree thesis are concerned with the competences consolidated during the preparation process,’the final written document and the defense of the thesis’itself. The final grade will thus be the result of various partial assessments:
- Competences consolidated while the thesis is being’prepared: grades will be given for persistence and consistency in the different stages of the project preparation, and progression in the’acquisition of the skills and attitudes necessary for the research and intervention. This assessment will be performed by the project advisor.
- End product: aspects that are normally taken into account in scientific publications will be assessed to ensure the coherence and quality of the paper on’research or’intervention. The project director and the members of the Assessment’Panel will issue a report prior to the defense, which will be released to the Graduate Studies Committee.
- Skills achieved in the defense of the thesis: the clarity, accuracy,’originality and quality of the’presentation will be assessed according to the requirements for the oral presentation of a project before’an assessment’panel. The final grade for the project will be issued by the Assessment’Panel’according to the competences’specified in Study’Plan.
Career path
At the end of the master degree, students will be able to:
Competently carry out the teaching functions of secondary school teachers in a context of diversity.
Doctoral studies. Students who have gained 60 ECTS credits can’access PhD studies. The Department of Education’determines the relationship between the specialties of the master degree, the teaching specialties and the qualifications’required to be able to teach a specific course.
A direct link to your future career
Our work doesn't finish the moment you graduate. The Alumni department will support you to enable us to achieve an employment rate of 90% of students in the first year after graduation
State-of-the-art facilities at students' disposal
Psychology Laboratory
The Psychology Laboratory is a space for research into new therapeutic resources. Among other things, it has virtual reality devices applied to psychology that allow for better research.
Music and dynamic rooms
Music learning is an essential part of education. The School has 3 spaces dedicated exclusively to working in this field: two recording rooms and a dynamic classroom for working on movement and bodily expression.
Research ethics committees
Ethics in the field of research is fundamental. The Faculty Research Institutes are supported by the opinions of the Research Ethics Committees (CER-URL) to evaluate and rate projects that have ethical implications.
Plastic classroom
In this classroom there are individual or group workshops to put into practice the knowledge of the visual and plastic subject. Here you will find various materials for carrying out projects of any format and work in two or three dimensions.
Libraries
If you need a quiet space to study or to do individual and group work, come to the library! Each school has its own library with computers, workrooms, reading points and an extensive catalog of documents you can consult in both hard copy and digital format.
Computer rooms
If you have a job or just need a computer, you can go to the computer classrooms or workspaces and use the Macs we have at your disposal.
Chapel
The chapel is the right place to find recollection, peace, to focus, to pray and to celebrate the Eucharist weekly and at important liturgical moments (Christmas, Ash Wednesday and Easter). The sacrament of reconciliation is also celebrated.
All the services you need while you are at the school
Blanquerna-URL School of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences 2030 Agenda Office
The 2030 Agenda Office of the Blanquerna-URL School of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences is a project designed to ensure the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the milestones set in the Agenda, based on the joint strategies of URL institutions.
SOPTIC
The SOPTIC (Pedagogical Guidance Service on Information and Communication Technologies) offers support in the use of ICT to both teachers and other faculty services.
International Mobility Office
Going abroad is a unique opportunity to discover the plurality of the world. Aware of the importance of the internationalization of studies, we have established mobility agreements around the world.
Methodological Advisory Service (SAM)
Do you need guidance or support on your research project? The Methodological Advisory Service (SAM) offers you a series of procedures to guide you in your work process in the field of research.
Careers
This service provides graduates with the necessary means so that they can actively participate in their professionalism and propose optimal candidates to organizations and companies looking for staff.
Psychopedagogical Advice and Innovation Service (SAIP)
Those centers or educational entities that want to promote changes or innovations in the classrooms will find in the SAIP a group of research and collaborating teachers who offer training to professionals individually.
Academic Secretary
The Academic Secretaries of the Blanquerna faculties are the space for students to relate to the processes linked to the registration of official and own courses.
Student Information and Guidance Service (SIOE)
Would you like to receive information on pre-registration and admissions processes, scholarships and grants or validations? The SIOE is the service you need. Ask for all the information about any of these processes and discover all the possibilities at your fingertips.
Internship service
Professional experience is a core part of our methodology. For this reason, we have a broad spectrum of internship agreements to meet the needs and preferences of all students. You will graduate having worked in your industry.
Scholarships and grants service
At Blanquerna, we put the future within everyone's reach thanks to our scholarships and grant service to start or continue studying at our schools. Financial aid is both internal and external to the university. You will find a wide range of possibilities.
International Mobility Office
Going abroad is a unique opportunity to discover the plurality of the world. Aware of the importance of the internationalization of studies, we have established mobility agreements around the world.
Careers
This service provides graduates with the necessary means so that they can actively participate in their professionalism and propose optimal candidates to organizations and companies looking for staff.
Job Bank
The leap into the world of work is always a challenge. For this reason, we provide a Job Bank for students and graduates. This service puts students in touch with companies and institutions looking for staff.
Solidarity action
Solidarity and the struggle for human dignity are values that identify us. Solidarity Action is a volunteer program that our students can join to participate in projects in the Third and Fourth World.
Alumni service
Studying in Blanquerna allows you to be part of our community. Being a college student opens the door to a lot of options for continuing your vocational training beyond your time in the classroom.
Sports service
Want to represent the URL in college sports tournaments? You can find a wide range of possibilities for both individual and team sports. To be a student of Blanquerna, you will have a discount at the Can Caralleu and La Salle Sport & Fitness sports complexes.
Personal Guidance Service (SOP)
If you are in a difficult situation in the academic, personal or social field, you can request, free of charge, the personalized attention of the SOP. This is an interdisciplinary team of professionals who will guide you in dealing with the situation.
University dormitories
Living in Barcelona is a unique experience and, even more so, in a university residence. Blanquerna has agreements for URL students who want to live in any of the residences within their reach.
Pastoral Area
In the three Blanquerna faculties, you will find spaces for reflection isolated from the hustle and bustle dedicated to the celebration of the Faith or cultural and religious animation. If you wish, you can also receive personalized attention and information about church life.
Diversity support
At Blanquerna we promote personal development at all levels to people with a diversity of specific needs from a normalizing context that encourages personal autonomy and uniqueness.
Blanquerna Choir
If you like music and want to take part in the concerts of institutional events and festivities, sign up for the Blanquerna Choir. There you will meet new friends and enjoy music.
Student representatives
Each class group must elect a representative to put forward concerns or make proposals to the faculty members and academic management. At the same time, each degree must appoint a delegate and each school a representative on the general URL council.
Student Council
Contact between students and the university is constant and is channeled through the Student Council, the body that collects proposals and requests from students and facilitates university life.
Language support service
Are you studying a foreign language and want to improve your level? Do it at your own pace in the language self-learning classroom. This service offers various teaching resources and materials to practice the language.
Coordinators
Josep Campos Rius
Xavier Canaleta Llampallas
David Soler Ortinez
Faculty
Sixte Abadia Naudí
Maria Carme Boqué Torremorell
Ramon Company Romero
Marc Llinàs Folch
José Morales Aznar
Nuria Nieto To
Enric Maria Sebastiani Obrador
Josep Solà Santesmases
Sara Suarez Pubill
Xavier Vidal Gómez
Admission to the Master Degree in Teacher Training
The process of applying for a place and enrolling in this degree is different from the other processes for this school's university master degrees. All the information on the steps to follow can be found on the official website of the master degree.
For the academic year 2024-2025
- Pre-registration: from July 24th to September 6th (both dates inclusive)
- Assignment of places: September 17th
- Enrollment: directly at the assigned center, from September 18th to 23rd
We’make it easy for you to access the studies you want
Course fees are paid in installments without any interest. At the time of enrollment, 50% of the total cost of the credits for which the student is enrolled must be paid*; the remaining 50% is split into monthly installments payable by direct debit.
Scholarships and grants Blanquerna
Master's degree accredited by the AQU (Quality Assurance Agency)
Degree follow-up reports
Other reports
- Historical follow-up indicator table. Specialization: Technology
- Historical follow-up indicator table. Specialization: Physical Education
- Historical follow-up indicator table. Specialization: English
- Academic grades. Specialization: Technology
- Academic grades. Specialization: Physical Education
- Academic grades. Specialization: English
- Center follow-up report
- Follow-up assessment report 2016-2017
Gender perspective
As the European Union points out, gender equality is not only a matter of social justice but also affects the results of teaching and research. Promoting gender equality in research and innovation is one of the European Commission's commitments, and it supports the explicit integration of a gender perspective in Horizon 2020 projects. However, this recommendation is often poorly understood and misapplied. Various documents are presented here with a view to contributing to a better understanding and application of the gender perspective in teaching and research.
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