Judge us on our classroom teaching

By Abigail Marsh2020-12-03T11:00:00

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Don’t prejudge this year’s NQTs just because their teacher training experience was different to yours, pleads Abigail Marsh

For trainee teachers, 2020 has been a real rollercoaster experience. This has led a small minority of experienced teachers to compare their own training to that of the 2020 cohort’s negatively, suggests NQT Abigail Marsh. In this article, she argues that the assumption that NQTs who started this September were underqualified and lacking in experience, or ability, is far from the truth.

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