NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences

Bachelor in International Teacher Education for Primary Schools (ITEPS)

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Your future

Teach in (privately funded) international schools or choose from a range of careers in international education. You’ll know how to apply your professional skills and knowledge to support children of different backgrounds, in different environments and in a multicultural setting.

Career opportunities

• International primary school teacher
• Educational assistant
• Special education teacher
• Principal or deputy principal

The practical way you learn

During your studies, you carry out practical assignments from real companies, working in groups and coached by lecturers and professionals with relevant professional experience. It’s a way of learning, an educational concept, we call DesignBased Education. You learn to draw on feedback to adapt your ideas and become more flexible, while also developing your teamwork and leadership skills.

There’s a world to explore

Our international community brings together over 80 nationalities on our campuses. It’s an open environment that will help you broaden your horizons in many respects. And we offer more options to get you ready for an intercultural work environment. For instance, you could do one of the programmes offered by RUNEU or, depending on your degree, do your internship abroad or follow a minor subject in a different country through our Grand Tour or Exchange programmes. You get to put together the right combination of courses and internships for you and develop both your professional and personal skills.

Course structure

• Year 1 – The focus is on developing basic teaching skills, learning mainly about how to teach and plan your teaching. You not only learn about different theories but also apply them immediately during classes. You also explore the basic subjects of mathematics and English as an international language.
• Year 2 – Continue to develop your teaching skills and didactics for maths and English as an international language. You also work on projects related to the sustainable development goals, develop a maths tool that you test in practice and study academic working methods.
• Year 3 – In the first semester, you take a minor, a specialist elective subject and in the second semester, you take educational studies and research and do a 10-week teaching practice internship.
• Year 4 - Take another minor elective in the first semester before launching into 9-12 weeks teaching practice and then finishing your bachelor thesis.

The ITEPS programme is accredited by:

• The NVAO (The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders).
• The International Baccalaureate Teaching and Learning Certificate.

NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences challenges its students, staff and partners to explore beyond existing solutions and possibilities, to discover and develop their talents so as to contribute to social progress.

• Learn using a practical approach, working in groups on assignments set by industry partners and developing usable solutions
• Get more international opportunities and spend part of your degree studying or doing your internship in a different country, drawing on our global network
• Get the most out of your studies with relatively low tuition rates, well-priced housing (and a housing guarantee) and homely and affordable student cities