Survive and Thrive as an NQT

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Publication date: 9th January 2011 by Author: James Woodcock. Web Editor: Simon Brown

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No matter how good your training was, starting as an NQT is a significant step up in your teaching career. You will still be wrestling with the big ideas about history teaching which you explored on your PGCE. You will also have the all too real, day-to-day pressures of a (nearly) full timetable, possibly a form group and a school of hundreds of strange children and staff to get to know. The activities suggested here will help you to learn from your experiences during this baptism of fire, helping you to survive and, ultimately, to thrive.

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Introduction

Introduction

Part 1: Survive

1.1 Magna Carta: never forget these basic principles…

1.2 Become a Renaissance Man (Part 1): Becoming a Form Tutor

1.3 'That's not my period' - non-specialist teaching

1.4 Quashing the Peasants' Revolt

1.5 Create your own Domesday Book (Part 1): Marking and Record Keeping

1.6 Possible mark book codes for generic skills

1.7 The 6T Chapel and the B2 Tapestry – Wall Displays

Part 2: Thrive

2.1 Start the Children’s Crusade: Why do we teach History?

2.2 Whig History – Progression, and what it means to get better at History

2.3 The Spanish Inquisition

2.4 Can we use predictions data?

2.5 On the level

2.6 Creating your own Domesday Book (Part 2): What’s the point of marking?

2.7 Becoming a Renaissance Man (Part 2): Discover your own New World

Part 3: Reference

3.1 Cultivating the Enlightenment

3.2 Organise the Roman Games: Revision and Recap Strategies

3.3 The Robin Hood Technique

3.4 Websites

Part 4: NQT Films

4.1 About to embark on your NQT year

4.2 After your NQT year