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Ten Years Since I Quit Teaching

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The Road Not Taken? http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/07/70/1077046_d3f400d2.jpg It dawned on me this week that I am approaching the ten year anniversary of quitting teaching after the first half-term of my NQT year. This post is a reflection on what went wrong then, why I'm still in teaching, and, perhaps most importantly, what I've learned from a decade of QTS. Before September 2006 My PGCE year went well. Perhaps too well. I had the opportunity to work with some genuinely talented trainees and learn from top quality lecturers at Leicester Uni. (Secondary Geography, since you asked). We embroiled ourselves in the pedagogical topics du jour . I remember, in one seminar, making a speech about the moral dangers of the 'fake it till you make it' approach to teaching, and getting a resounding round of applause from my peers. What a schmuck. But I had a pretty successful first placement at a school in the town where I was living. I put the hours in, that's for sure