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MY ADVICE
TO NQTS
Ian
Bauckham
CBE
Ian Bauckham CBE is a long serving
Headteacher of a high achieving 11-18
secondary school in SE England, and is
now the CEO of the Trust he set up
which includes also primary and free
schools. He went straight into teaching
after graduating from Cambridge in the
mid 80s.
In this article he gives four pieces of
advice for teachers coming out of
training and starting their first teaching
jobs.
The first thing I would say to a newly
qualified teacher (NQT) is that your
training is only just starting. It has
always been clear to me that teaching is
a career-long process of learning and
developing in our knowledge of how
young people learn and how we can
most effectively teach, and to approach
teaching in the early stages as an
activity which one can be taught how to
do in one year is very likely to lead at
best to frustration and at worst to
failure. Keeping an enquiring and open
mind and understanding that the
interaction between the developing
human mind and the vast body of human
knowledge which has been accumulated
over millennia (and is still being added
to) is a lifetime’s journey which is
unlikely ever to be complete.
Having an open mind means also being
prepared to have some of your existing
ideas, including some of those learnt on
your PGCE or training year, challenged.
Be ready for this, and if you don’t know
whom to believe, try to turn to good
quality evidence and research.
When I started teaching three and a half
decades ago, there was very little
opportunity for the teaching profession
to access and apply good quality
research.
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