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Teaching Methods for Science: License Requirements and Teaching-Practice Credits

This page explains how the Teaching Methods for Science course is treated for the science teaching license and the credits required before teaching practice.

Is Teaching Methods for Science required?

The course is part of the science teaching-methods requirements for the teaching license. For the 2025 Engineering Faculty table at Tokyo Senju Campus, the course is marked as free in the selection column, but a note directly below the table states that the listed courses must be completed. For the 2026 Engineering Faculty table at the same campus, Teaching Methods for Science is listed as a four-credit course in the science required-course group, although it is marked as free in the selection column. At Saitama Hatoyama Campus in the 2025 and 2026 Science and Engineering Faculty tables, it is also listed as a four-credit science required course. The listed courses for the science teaching-methods category must all be completed: Teaching Methods for Science (4 credits) and Science Instruction Methods (4 credits).

Credits required before teaching practice

At Saitama Hatoyama Campus in the Science and Engineering Faculty, students undertaking teaching practice in Science must have earned all 4 credits of Teaching Methods for Science by the end of their third year. This requirement applies to both the 2025 and 2026 academic-year information provided.

Official sources

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