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Recommended Courses for Teaching-Licence Preparation

This page explains which courses are recommended for students preparing to obtain a teaching licence and shows how Education Studies Overview is listed in the teacher-training curriculum.

Recommended courses for licence preparation

Students preparing to become teachers are advised not to rely on substitution provisions. The recommended basic courses are Introduction to Teaching, Education Studies Overview, Educational Psychology, and Teaching Methods for Industrial Subjects. In one set of guidance, students are specifically advised to complete 2 credits of Vocational Guidance and 4 credits of Teaching Methods for Industrial Subjects, together with at least 2 credits each of Introduction to Teaching, Education Studies Overview, and Educational Psychology. This guidance describes these courses as recommended preparation; it does not state in that wording that all of them are mandatory conditions for obtaining a licence.

How Education Studies Overview is listed

Education Studies Overview is listed under courses concerning the basic understanding of education, including the principles, history, and ideas of education. The supplied curriculum entries list it as a 2-credit lecture for first-year students in the first half of the academic year, with one class-period value. It is marked as elective in the required-or-elective column and has teacher-training code 3301. The remarks identify it as a teacher-licence required course and a human sciences course; some entries also identify it as a summer intensive lecture. The course is therefore both part of the teacher-training curriculum and included in the recommended preparation described above.

Official sources

The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.