Best Practice

Inducting new staff and NQTs

NQTs
School leader Ben Solly offers his advice on how we can support the effective induction of new teachers, including a specific focus on successful lesson observation strategies.

The teaching profession has taken quite a battering in recent years and I admire greatly those who are currently embarking on a career in the classroom, given the current educational climate. 

Coupled with this we have the restructuring of the mechanisms and structures for training teachers and this has meant that many providers are delivering certain courses for student teachers for the first time.

All of this considered, beginning a career in teaching can seem a daunting prospect for an NQT, and consequently schools and academies have an even greater responsibility to ensure their induction programme is supportive, comprehensive and high-quality.

Below are some suggestions for effective induction strategies that will help NQTs and new members of teaching staff who are more experienced to make a successful start to their new job.

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