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NQT Special: Surviving your PGCE year

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This year’s SecEd NQT diarist is well into his first term at the chalkface. As part of SecEd's autumn 2019 NQT special edition, he offers his advice to the current cohort of trainee teachers on surviving and thriving during your training year

My PGCE year was without doubt the most challenging, stressful, but ultimately rewarding year of my life. Never before has the term “like a rollercoaster” been more appropriate...

As a PGCE student you can have days when you feel completely broken, lessons have not gone to plan and when you are left thinking that, quite simply, you are not cut-out for teaching.

Then fast-forward 24 hours and you will have had the best teaching day of your life and you will be leaving school feeling on top of the world.

So, for those moments when you feel down in the dumps, here are my top five tips to surviving your PGCE year.

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