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Diary of an NQT: All change...

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Our NQT diarist has lost some of the classes with which he had been making good progress, and has been given a new challenging history group...

Due to a long-term illness in my department, I have had significant changes made to my timetable.

I have taken over the absent colleague’s year 10 history class as they need a subject specialist to ensure they make good progress. This has had an impact on my entire timetable, with changes that are both positive and negative.

Unfortunately, I have had to say goodbye to a year 8 history class that I had been getting on with really well. I wrote about this class in my previous diary entry (SecEd 497, December 7, 2017) focusing on observations; little did I know that the observed lesson would be my last time teaching them.

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