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Diary of an NQT: Improving my practice

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With term one under his belt, our NQT diarist is determined to draw on his colleagues' support to improve his practice during the spring term...

The new year celebrations now feel like a lifetime ago and I find myself starting a brand-new term with fresh challenges ahead.

By the end of the autumn term I felt a mixture of exhaustion and pride. It felt to me that making it through my first full term of teaching was the first of hopefully many milestones in my teaching career. With my first term as an NQT now completed, I have found that my priorities and targets have changed somewhat.

In my first term I was predominantly focused on settling in, getting to know my pupils and, most importantly, surviving! Now into my second term, my focus is very much on improving my own teaching practice in order to get the best out of my pupils.

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