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 [...]

Planning for spontaneity

In this post, I want to look at how we can review the last term to see how pupils are using classroom language and how to use that to plan for this term and next September.  This is more about how pupils are interacting than how they are advancing in their content, or topic, language.  [...]

To Get You Started… NQT Day #4

Things you need to find out today: Homework  How is homework to be marked?  And how is that marking to be recorded?  One of the things that you will be assessed on as part of your NQT programme is that you keep proper records and that you can use that assessment information in your planning [...]

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 [...]