Teacher Training Centre

Founded on 1st December 2012, the Teacher Training Centre focuses on secondary school teacher training. In addition, it has the important mission of training professionally qualified teachers committed to the values of Reformed Church education.

Our teacher training is strongly linked with courses in our disciplinary programmes. As a consequence of Act CCIV on National Higher Education, the Bachelor- (BA) and Masters (MA)-level programmes were combined into a five- or six-year, one-cycle programme in 2013. Thus teacher training was removed from the former two-level Bologna system in use between 2008 and 2013. The new one-cycle programme includes a one-year traineeship in upper primary and schools where the teacher trainees are instructed by mentor teachers. Upon graduation, students are provided with a university degree that enables them to teach in secondary education.

In addition to teacher training, the Teacher Training Centre is responsible for coordinating the work and ensuring the cooperation between the departments and institutes where the disciplinary courses are taught and the centre itself, where teacher training-related courses are delivered. Within this context, the Teacher Training Centre also coordinates the admission processes, the credit acceptance requests and the process of final exams, just as It organises, monitors, and evaluates the school teaching practices.

Moreover, the Centre also manages the specialty training related to the programmes available at the Faculty of Pedagogy (English; Hungarian; Hungarian as a Foreign Language; German, History, Dutch, Media). A teacher training programme for the students of the Faculty of Theology is also provided.

The Centre started short-cycle teacher training courses for college or university graduates in 2017. Since then these courses have been extremely popular, especially among those who have decided to introduce changes in their career in their more mature years. There are 2-semester, 4-semester and 5-semester MA teacher training courses available, depending on the type of degree the applicant holds:
 • those with a disciplinary MA degree (without a degree in teacher training) in those fields that are taught as subjects in secondary schools and are available at our faculty (see above) and those with a BA-level  teacher training degree in any of the subject-areas mentioned above are eligible to apply for 2-semester MA programme (60 ECTS-credits);
 • those MA teacher training graduates who want to earn a second degree in an additional subject area can apply for a 4- semester MA programme (120 ECTS-credits);
 • a 5-semester MA programme is available for those holding an elementary teacher training college BA degree (150 ECTS-credits).    

Our university has its own training schools, and there is an excellent and exemplary working relationship between the lecturers of the departments and institutes involved in teacher training and the mentor teachers of these schools. The Teacher Training Centre offers post-graduate teacher training, such as the so-called Mentor Teacher Training Specialist Programme. From September 2020 a new postgraduate specialist programme on Bibliotherapy is also available for school teachers with a degree.

We also offer some certificate courses for secondary school teachers, such as Pedagogy of Coming to Terms with Death and Other Losses (30 credits), Pedagogical Approaches to Family Values (40 credits) and Innovations in Teaching German as a Second Language (30 credits).

Organizational Structure of the Teacher Training Centre and List of Lecturers:

General Director:

Lecturers: