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NQT – the year ahead
How to make the most of
your NQT year
Annette Beard
London Centre for Leadership in Learning
Institute of Education
[email protected]
Introductions
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Name
School
Class teaching
Training
Why you want to be a teacher………..
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Protocols
Protocols for working together
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Being an NQT
By the end of this session;
• Understand the statutory requirements for
the NQT year, along with the expectations
for the year ahead
• Be aware of the programme of support
within Newham
• Be excited about the year ahead
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Being an NQT
I am an NQT in Newham;
• What am I excited by?
• What am I anxious about?
• What do I want to know?
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Being an NQT
THINK about your training year…….
•Identify your 3 strengths
•Any areas for development
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On sugar paper, draw your ideal middle leader.
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Being an NQT
• How are you going to develop your
strengths?
• How are you going to work on your areas
for development?
• What do you want to be thinking, doing,
seeing by the end of my NQT year?
Think with the end in mind….
Where do you want to be in a year?
( Start with final column- as it is not a
deficit model)
Where am I now?
Actions needed
What I want to be
like as a teacher
by year 2 ?
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The NQT year is about developing
your reflective skills and moving
yourself on…..
Reflective learning cycle
This is your experience
of teaching
Concrete experience
Using the answers
arrived at you plan
alternative strategies
to gain progress
Plan active
experimentation
Here you ask questions
about your evaluation.
You seek reasons for
success and failure
Reflect on experience
Abstract
conceptualisation
Here you evaluate
your experience to
identify what was
effective and what
ineffective
Ref: David Kolb
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The KOLB reflection cycle
Try to think about an event / issue in the first
two weeks of term
Use the KOLB CYCLE to analyse and reflect
on the event
Discuss with a partner
How the NQT programme will help you…
The NQT programme is designed to develop
your reflective skills and enable you to put
into action your learning.
Each theme is made up of several parts.
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The first session for a theme you learn
about the theme
You plan how you are going to put this
Into action back in school- observation,
discussion, practice……
You then reflect before returning to session 2
Session 2 everyone shares their learning in
Triads
Reflect and record learning from the NQT group
Research shows that there is no personality
type that makes a good teacher.
Whether you are a shy introvert or an
enthusiastic extrovert you can teach
effectively......
......but only if you know how
to learn from your mistakes
and successes.
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Producing a learning log
And gaining accreditation with the IOE
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NQTs working with the standards
Statutory induction is the bridge between
initial teacher training and a career in
teaching. It combines
• a personalised programme of development,
support and professional dialogues
• with monitoring and an assessment of
performance against the relevant
standards.
NQTs working with the standards
The STANDARDS
The Teacher’s Standards will be used to assess
an NQT’s performance at the END of their
induction period.
The decision about whether an NQT ’ s
performance against the relevant standards is
satisfactory upon completion of induction
should take into account;
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NQTs
• The NQTs work context
• Made on the basis of what can be
reasonably expected of an NQT by the
end of induction.
NQTs: Statutory
Judgements should reflect the expectation
that NQTS
• Have effectively consolidated their ITT
• Demonstrated their ability to meet the
relevant standards consistently over a
sustained period
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NQT year
NQT Entitlement
• 10% reduction in teaching timetable
• Tailored individual programme
• Support of an induction tutor
• Observation and feedback
• Progress reports
NQTs and the Teaching Standards
What do the standards look like?
In groups
discuss the kind of evidence that show that
you are meeting the standards that you will
be assessed against
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• Feedback
• Brainstorm as a team all the various pieces of
evidence we could consider
• Feedback on the section you have discussed
as a group
How does it fit with the iceberg?
NQTs - attributes
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NQTs and their induction tutors
Working with your induction tutor
Key to the NQT year is working
successfully with your Induction Tutor
NQTs and their induction tutors
Key attributes of a good induction tutor
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Induction tutors
• Confident in understanding of teaching
and learning
• Aware how different learners learn
• Confident about own teaching
• Open minded and receptive to new ideas
• Able to observe and to evaluate evidence
• Concerned about personal development
• Can give constructive feedback
Effective early professional development
• Coaching and mentoring- staff, trainees, students
• Collaborative working- within team, across staff,
across schools
• Observation- particularly in other schools
• Classroom-based research
• Self-directed learning
• Post Graduate Professional Development
• Identifying professional development needs
• Case studies
• Individual training plans
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Producing a learning log……….
And gaining accreditation with the IOE
Reflections
Evaluation
Action planning
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Good luck and enjoy
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