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NQT Special: Classroom hypnosis

It can be too easy to procrastinate over every single detail of our lessons, especially when we are new to teaching. Martin Matthews urges NQTs to trust their instincts. He explains why we should let ourselves switch off in order to switch on...

You’re behind the wheel of a car, driving down a road – or at least you were. You are now somewhere else in your mind, in the middle of a conversation with a colleague, talking to a family member about something you should have spoken to them about last week, or thinking about how you’re going to mend the hole in the kitchen roof.

Suddenly you realise you’re back in the car and you’ve no memory of driving along the previous two miles. It’s a route you often take. It’s a road you’ve driven before. It’s not dangerous, as such, if you had needed to “wake up” you would have easily done so at the sight of a brake light ahead, a wayward pedestrian or an escaped farmyard animal.

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