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I’ve had the opportunity to write a book to support other new teachers in the profession. This all came about by working closely with two colleagues in my first school. We started as NQTs together and got on really well. We were able to support each other through our tough first few years and wanted to share our knowledge with other NQT teachers. We were given the name of a publishing company and contacted them about writing a book.
We worked collaboratively to write it. We would brainstorm each chapter and discover which topics each of us was most confident in and write to our strengths. We would regularly meet to read each other’s work to discuss and add topics we’d been missed. It was a long process but having two co-authors really helped. We finished the book in August 2017 and spent nearly eight months working with proofreaders and editors. Our first proofread came back with six-hundred comments and we had only two-weeks to rework the text. Finally, after two years of working on it, the book has now been published.
We’ve had some really positive feedback, including reviews from Teacher Toolkit and and our book is now on the reading list for a few universities. To be recognised by people on that level, who communicate with, and train, educators across the country has been an amazing experience.
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