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Diary of an NQT: Under observation

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After a disappointing outcome from his first lesson observation, our NQT diarist is determined to come out fighting this time...

Over the course of my NQT year, I will be observed teaching 12 times, with my in-class practice graded against the national Teachers’ Standards.

Having completed my ITT year, I am very familiar with the Standards, as I had to show evidence that each one had been met by the end of my training.

During observations, each Standard is given a grading of either “Excelling”, “Embedded”, “Emerging”, or “Limited”, mirroring Ofsted’s “outstanding” to “inadequate” grading system (although Ofsted has not graded lessons for some time now and does not expect schools to do so either).

I finished my ITT year being graded either “outstanding” or “good” for all of the Teachers’ Standards, and

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