Four weeks in and another batch of bright eyed and bushy tailed NQTs have successfully been broken at my school.
It's not only my department, there seems to be a school wide consensus that NQTs must be given all of the bottom sets. On top of that, everything they do must be ripped to pieces and nobody is ever allowed to make any positive remarks. Two competent, nice people have already quit.
I know that the working atmosphere in my school is not nice, but this happens every single year. When will the powers that be cotton on to the fact that, maybe, it's not the NQTs, it's the way this school treats them???
Lots of bog standard teachers like me are trying their best to be welcoming and supportive, but that is not enough to balance out the weekly onslaught of mentor meetings that make Guantanamo Bay look like Butlins and observation feedback that is designed to get rid of any self esteem that might be left over.
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Why must NQTs go through hell?
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Acopyofacopy · 29/09/2017 17:11
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