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NQT Special: Starting the journey to outstanding

Inspection advice/guidance NQTs
Every NQT aspires to become an outstanding teacher, but where does this journey start and how should you approach the challenge. As part of SecEd's NQT special edition, Dorothy Lepkowska asks some experts for their advice.

Getting through the induction year and coming out the other side with your energy and enthusiasm intact is an achievement of which you should be proud.

But how do you build on everything you have learned in your training year and start the journey to becoming an outstanding teacher?

It is a question that not just individual teachers are asking themselves – whole schools are grappling with the conundrum of what makes their learning environment outstanding. And all the more so since changes to the Ofsted inspections framework mean that no school can now be judged outstanding overall, unless the quality of teaching is also rated as outstanding.

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