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Diary of an NQT: Have I forgotten how to teach?

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Feelings of anxiety are beginning to rise as term one begins – will our new SecEd NQT diarist remember everything she learnt during her training year?

As I begin this regular diary for SecEd, I can’t quite believe that just this time last year I was about to embark on the most challenging journey – my PGCE.

I can still remember the moments before the bell rang for registration on that first morning. Sitting at my desk awaiting my students, classroom tidied and organised, full of gusto and ready to accomplish what I’d eagerly anticipated.

Within weeks, the pedantic to-do lists, the neatly filed exercise books and my plans for a routine sleeping pattern quickly unravelled before me.

I, too, quickly realised that nothing can quite prepare you for the eye-opening experience of teacher training.

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