I Will Survive! Managing Your Workload As An NQT #3

Surviving the Summer Term At the beginning of this academic year I posted a short article each day in the first week of the autumn term.  These were basically an expanded form of a list of pointers I would give to Newly Qualified Teachers in my department as they were starting off.  It’s very easy [...]

comSIMPLEplexity: Objectively speaking

I’m going to home in on two of the activities I mentioned in the last post on comSIMPLEplexity, the flashcard activity in pairs and pelmanism, and look at the language used.  And then we’ll have that long-promised think about learning objectives.  If you haven’t seen the last post – cue bugle –  (comSIMPLEplexity: Getting pupils [...]

I Will Survive – Managing the workload as an NQT 2

So here we go with Round 2, starting where we left off having mapped out a half-term.  If you haven’t read the first post in this category, I suggest you read that first – this article will make much more sense if you do!  This article is not so much about lesson-planning as managing your [...]

I Will Survive! Managing the workload as an NQT 1

This is a hand-out from a course I have given to NQTs of which the last session of the day was an approach to managing the workload.  The PGCE year feels busy enough, but starting in a new school as an NQT, often at the same time as moving to a new town, means that [...]