Photo by Anna Tarazevich on Pexels.com This week, in the middle of a PGCE interview, the applicant asked: “Is there any ongoing support for your trainee teachers after they leave your programme?” I smiled, partly because it is such an important question, and partly because I was thinking about what had happened in the last … Continue reading From ITT student to colleague: sustaining relationships beyond ITT
During the SHP Virtual Conference in July, I got into a Twitter conversation with a beginning teacher who, following Christine Counsell’s presentation on ‘The what, why and how of broadening historical content at KS3’, commented that he felt like a teaching toddler: This feeling of not having done enough or learnt enough or not … Continue reading Discovering Lego: Growing as an early career teacher
I remember the moment I was first asked to be a NQT mentor. The news was delivered as a fait accompli, and my heart sank. It wasn't that I didn't want to do it, I did, but I had just gained my first middle leader promotion and was in the middle of a MA. I … Continue reading Why bother mentoring a beginning teacher? What’s in it for me?
Becoming a History Teacher 