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NQT Special Edition: Diary of an NQT – Planning my priorities for year 2...

Every week, SecEd’s NQT diary follows the ups and downs of an NQT working in a school in England. As her NQT year comes to an end, our diarist reflects on how far she has come

Last week, I was invited back to the university where I trained to take part in an NQT conference. Six of us who completed the PGCE last year went back to talk to and lecture the current PGCE students.

It was a strange experience going back and feeling so different; so much more confident and sure of myself than I was when I was sitting in their place listening to the previous year’s NQTs.

Listening to their concerns and questions was a great exercise in evaluating how far I’ve come since I was in their position, and also how much there is still to achieve.

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