Coming to the end of my NQT year, although I have been working part-time so it is not completed. I am on a temporary contract which finishes in July, and I think I have reached the decision not to carry on next year. I am passing everything, I get good feedback BUT 1) the workload seems never ending, even though I am part-time, and it is having a negative impact on my own children (I am a single parent), 2) classroom management is improving but has been an enormous uphill struggle (I suppose I look back on my own school days with rose-tinted specs and today's youngsters' attitudes to adults and learning seem very different) and 3) I am a hard-worker but I never quite feel that I really know exactly what I am doing - when I have voiced this to experienced teachers, they just laugh and say "oh that's teaching!"
Anyway, I am letting it go but I feel intensely sad about it. I wondered if anyone else has felt this way? Or perhaps there are other mature NQTs out there for whom it has really worked out?
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rosabud · 21/05/2013 08:20
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