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| Becoming a teacher - training options |
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| | How to make the best of your school experience
Jennifer Beckles looks at ways to make it work for you. |
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| | My school experience
School placement is part of all teacher training courses, and here two students describe their experiences. |
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| | Teach First
Teach First was set up after business organisations London First and Business in the Community approached a firm of management consultants to look at how to improve pupil performance. |
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| | Advice from a PGCE student
My PGCE course is finally drawing to a close. I would like to say the pressure is off at university but in reality it has just changed to a different sort of pressure. |
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| | Induction - have you been observed yet?
Have you been observed yet? This is the half-term when things most often slip so get your induction tutor to organise soon. Sara Bubb reports. |
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| | No skills tests, no QTS
Compared with teaching 30 kids, skills tests are a doddle, says Sara Bubb. |
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| | PGCE students: coping with the filing cabinet
I have enjoyed my PGCE, embracing each new challenge as only a life-long learner can. But the hardest part I didn’t see coming at all, says Claire Higgins.
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| | PGCE: changes to the rules
There will soon be two PGCEs: a masters level and a less academic version. Irena Barker explains |
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| | Using body language to your advantage
Your body language can have as much impact as your words. Janet Murray looks at how to use gestures to your advantage |
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| | Graduate Teacher Programme - FAQs
Join the Graduate Teacher Programme and train to be a teacher in school. |
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| | Life as a BEd primary student
You know how the saying goes: “Never work with children or animals.” Well, I’ve never wanted to be a vet, and I don’t believe in everything people say.
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| | Trainee teachers & NQTs: career advice
On Tuesday March 6, 2007, the TES hosted an online careers clinic. Trainee teachers and NQTs asked careers expert John Howson a variety of questions. |
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| | How to write an end of term report
End of term. Just when you’re at your most exhausted they hit you with report writing. Any suggestions? Make your choice – do you do serious or cynical? Duncan Grey reports.
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| | New teachers: writing a report
By now you should be offering constructive advice in reports, writes Sara Bubb. |
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| | Agency wants more money for NQTs
New teachers should start on a higher salary, the Government’s teacher recruitment agency says, calling into question ministers’ pay policy. Jonathan Milne reports.
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| | Job swappers please parents
They like teachers with out-of-school experience. Irena Barker reports. |
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| | Earning extra cash on the side
Anthea Davey finds out how to make ends meet.
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| | NQTs welcome jobs at colleges
Proposals to allow newly qualified teachers to spend their induction year in a further education college have been welcomed by trainees, who hope the change will widen their choices of first jobs. Irena Barker reports.
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| | An NQTs life: every day is different
I feel like I’ve been a new teacher for a lifetime. I can’t tell you what to expect from the NQT year except it’s a roller-coaster. When people tell you it is just as bad as training, believe them. Sarah Hikal reports. |
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| | NQT to leader in six years
Umbar Sharif would never have imagined she’d be leading a sixth form consortium just six years after she qualified. Charlotte Phillips reports. |
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| | Preparing for an induction assessment report
Be warned: don't forget that among all the Christmas preparations the induction assessment report has to be written about you, writes Sara Bubb. |
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| | Secrets of success for NQTs
If you can make it through the NQT year, chances are you’ll handle everything your career throws at you. So keep going, says Stephen Manning. |
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