NQT Special: So, what will change in year 2?

Induction for an NQT can be a bit of a tough period, but a host of support mechanisms should have helped to ease you into school life this year.

Here I want to look at some of the main changes you can expect in September, when with your NQT year complete you will become a fully qualified teacher. Some of the benefits offered during induction may not be there when you progress, but rest assured that other support mechanisms should kick in instead.

During your induction, monitoring and support arrangements for you as an NQT are likely to have included three formal assessments – one per term – in which you will have been assessed against the Teachers’ Standards by your headteacher or induction tutor. After your final assessment meeting, if your headteacher and the appropriate body consider your performance to have been satisfactory, your induction will be over and you will no longer be subject to these assessments.