In a recent NQT session, our senior leadership team representative stood discussing our topic for the week before interrupting himself to say: “Your priorities as an NQT should be planning lessons, delivering lessons and marking. If anyone asks you to do anything else, you let me know.”
I laughed at the time, before realising that it was a genuine remark. My goodness, if that was all we were required to do in this job, there is no doubt that the drop-out rate for new teachers wouldn’t be so high.
If he wants me to let him know whenever I’m asked to do something else, he is going to have his ear chewed off daily with the finer points of my to-do list, which funnily enough contains very little teaching or planning time these days.
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