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Dear NQT… My Top 10 Tips for Teaching Online

It is important that in setting your timetable that you write it out every morning and timetable in everything, be that your breaks, a walk, reading time.
A timetable of your week’s activities is a good idea too, for both you and the pupils. On a Monday, I give an overview of the lessons we will be doing every day or activities with resources needed beside each one. If there is a specific requirement, especially for art, even if it is just to have toilet rolls collected, giving notice for this is a good idea. This also helps pupils get their own week timetabled and planned out and parents can work around this too.

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NQT Fest 2021 – A Virtual Event for NQT’s

NQT Fest is a specially designed online event for NQT’s.

This event aspires to inspire, motivate and share valuable insights to our newest teachers.

We explore topics such as:

Teacher wellbeing
Nurturing empathy and using restorative practice in the classroom
Special education
Embedding formative assessment in your practice.

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Are you good with money?

Nobody enters the teaching profession to become a millionaire – we know that money is not necessarily the main reward with teaching.
It can be a secure and pensionable permanent job – but not one that provides financial freedom or other options.
Often, we think “I only earn a teacher’s salary” and therefore it rules things out for us. Teachers often think it will take them a very long time to get on the property ladder… and even longer to be mortgage-free.

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5 Top Tips for a Stress-free Parent Teacher Meeting

I am so excited to be able to share this series with you, where I share my knowledge, hindsight and tips as you embark on your teaching journey. We really have no time to waste, so let’s get started! A little bit about me… My name is Nadine and I run the Instagram platform ‘Múinteoir N’ to help teachers, particularly student teachers and Newly Qualified Teachers (NQT) as they embark on their teaching career.  It

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The Not-So-Secret Diary of a Teacher in Lockdown with Irish Primary Teacher

I think with teaching there is a never ending to do list and it’s very hard to just switch off at the end of a busy day when you’re worried about a child/parent/ meeting or just have so many different things that you need to complete.

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The Not-So-Secret Diary of a Teacher in Lockdown with Aimee Flynn

Hi everyone! My name is Aimee Flynn or for the purposes of Instagram, Aistear in Action. September will be my tenth year teaching.  I have taught in learning support (as it was known then), 5th, 2nd/3rd, 1st, Junior Infants, Senior Infants and Junior/Senior Infants. I am currently teaching Junior Infants this year and hope to have either Junior or Senior Infants in the new school year. I started my third level education in D.I.T. and

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The Not-So-Secret Diary of a Teacher in Lockdown with Nadine Lyons

Hi! I’m Nadine, a newly qualified primary school teacher from Cavan. I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities degree in English and Geography and the Professional Master’s in Education (PME) (Primary), both in St. Patrick’s College, DCU. I was awarded the Vere Foster medal by the INTO in November for receiving the highest marks in teaching practices and curricular areas of education over the two year PME programme. I own ‘Múinteoir N’, which I

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The Not-So-Secret Diary of ASD Creation Station

Hello everyone. My name is Lisa. I am 33 and based in County Laois. I’m in my tenth year of teaching and have taught in mainstream, SET and am presently in my 3rd year in my ASD class. I trained in the UK and taught there for 5 years and then moved back home to Ireland 5 years ago.     My alarm goes off… At 5:30, 5:40, 5:50 and again at 6:00! Yes, I

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The Not-So-Secret Diary of a Teacher

I’m Rozz, a primary school teacher living in Carlow. I’m also the Director of mash.ie, a teacher resource sharing website. I live for books and creative writing and run a literary blog called rozz.ie   My alarm goes off… At 6:10 a.m. It takes me at least an hour to get ready for work! I teach in Portlaoise and our school opens at 8:30 so I have to be fully alert very early! We also

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The Not-So-Secret Diary of a Teacher

Ciara Lynch is a primary school teacher from Cork, who graduated from Mary I with a ‘B.Ed with Music’. Since starting teaching, Ciara has worked in Community National, denominational and Educate Together schools in both Dublin and Cork.  Last year, Ciara set up her Instagram page @ciarasclassroom as a way of learning from other teachers, sharing ideas of her own and connecting with other teachers across the country and world.   My alarm goes off…

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