Benjamin Franklin claimed that “ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten”. It appears that the Twittersphere backs this up as I found recently when I asked for recollections of bad advice and poor experiences from teachers’ first years at the chalkface.
As such, this article includes some of the worst examples of this so-called “advice”. However, I have also included some of the more sensible guidance I received from NQTs and from some more experienced teachers who survived and thrived in their first few years of teaching...
Amy Forrester (@amymayforrester), an English teacher in Cumbria, was given this piece of duff advice in her first year of teaching. Fortunately, she chose not to adopt this advice and her blog offering practical pedagogy and support to teachers is testimony to this.
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