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	<title>Starting Out Guide For Newly Qualified and Trainee Teachers</title>
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	<description>The Teacher Support Network Starting Out Guide For Newly Qualified Teachers and Teacher Trainees</description>
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		<title>We are here for you</title>
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Teacher Support Network is an independent charity dedicated to providing vital support to teachers like you – when you are training, throughout your career and beyond. Our free services include:

Telephone and online coaching: practical and emotional support personalised via a secure email system or phone.
Telephone and online counselling: confidential, solution-focused counselling on personal and professional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newteachers.info/here-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Finding a job</title>
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Getting started on your job search
If you are training or a trainee it is a good idea to start looking out for jobs at the beginning of the spring term. This may sound early, but should give you plenty of choice, particularly if you want to work in a specific location.
However, if you have difficulty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newteachers.info/job-hunt/</link>
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		<title>Your first steps into teaching</title>
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Testing times
As part of your assessment to achieve Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) you will be required to submit coursework and complete assessments. Balancing this with lesson planning, marking and other school work can be a challenge. Reflection or evaluation is also a crucial aspect of the teacher training process.
You will need to provide written evidence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newteachers.info/first-steps/</link>
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		<title>Back to school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone says that your school days are the best of your life. Whether you agreed with this when you were sitting in the library revising for an exam on a Friday afternoon or running cross-country in a blizzard, you obviously liked the place because you’re going back!
You’re beginning an inspiring and rewarding career where no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newteachers.info/back-to-school/</link>
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		<title>Looking after yourself</title>
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Find your pressure points
Schools can be pressurised places at the best of times. But you may find some times in the school year are particularly hectic, when you may have to contend with report writing or marking coursework in addition to your usual workload. And if you’re involved in running extra-curricular activities, such as drama [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newteachers.info/looking-after-yourself/</link>
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		<title>Career Development</title>
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Although you will be assigned a school mentor, you will be responsible for managing your own performance and training needs. If you identify any gaps in your training you will need to talk with tutors and your mentor about how you might gain the necessary experience. Your school mentor will carry out lesson observations and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newteachers.info/career-development/</link>
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		<title>Money, money, money</title>
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A home to call your own
Renting
Scouring the local paper can take a lot of time and energy. The Association of Residential Letting Agents&#8217; website at www.arla.co.uk lists all the letting agents by area, as do both www.yell.com and www.thomweb.co.uk To search specifically for properties try www.homes2rent.net or www.fish4homes.co.uk.
If you’re still training and are looking to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newteachers.info/money/</link>
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		<title>Routes into teaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This section of our Starting Out Guide contains a good amount of information from the Training and Development Agency for Schools. You can find out more about TDA by clicking here.
Finding the right route for you

There are a wide variety of routes that you can take into teaching. The one which you choose will most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newteachers.info/routes-into-teaching/</link>
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		<title>Useful contacts</title>
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Here we have put together a toolkit of useful resources, organised by country. If you know of additional resources that could be useful to new teachers, please add them to this section.
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		<link>http://www.newteachers.info/useful-contacts/</link>
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