I'm currently training to teach through the Teach First route (secondary Maths) - completed my first year of teaching/PGCE last year. Unusually, I loved it. The school is challenging but supportive, my timetable was reasonable and I loved being a teacher. For what it's worth, I was generally a good teacher and always received positive feedback, and was graded 'Outstanding' by my PGCE university.
Now, three weeks into the new term and my NQT year and I am so miserable. Although outwardly I'm coping, I am completely exhausted and I cry every evening. The increase in my timetable has been a huge shock to the system (and I'm still 'only' on an NQT timetable) and I can't see my workload becoming more manageable. Part of me wants to leave at the end of this year and go and do something for more money and less stress, except, I do still love the actual teaching and can't imagine doing anything else.
Could really do with some handholding and some stories that this will actually get better.
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VeganMarshmallows · 25/09/2016 19:08
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