Newly Qualified Teachers
The NASUWT offers high quality support to NQT's
The NASUWT welcomes newly qualified teachers to the profession. If you benefited from being an NASUWT student member throughout your training years you will already have experienced the excellent service the NASUWT offers to all sections of our membership. All students are entitled to free membership of the NASUWT and this offer of free membership extends to newly qualified teachers who decide to join the NASUWT or convert their student membership to full NQT membership. To find out more read the Discounted Subscription Rates for NQT Members section below.
The NASUWT produces a comprehensive package of support for NQT members of the Union. The support the Union provides includes highly informative guidance publications such as the NASUWT Guide to the Induction process, the Union's leaflet 'Know your Rights' which sets out the key rights NQT's should expect to receive when entering into their first teaching positions, 'Starting Out' which offers key advice about starting out in a teaching career and the NASUWT 'Conditions of Service' document, which covers the main terms and conditions that teachers should expect to receive. All of these publications can be downloaded by clicking on the appropriate links on this page. However, NASUWT support for NQT's includes more than just high quality publications. 'Finding your First Teaching Post' is a web based resource that provides guidance to NQT's on every stage of searching for a first teaching post, from the application process through to the post appointment stage, click on the link on this page to get access to this really useful web resource.
The other major element of the NASUWT NQT support package are the free seminars the Union provides for NQT's from the time before NQT's enter into their first position, through their first term and first year. To find out more look at the Preparing for your First Teaching Post Seminar section below.
The NASUWT also has an excellent network of local officers, regional staff and legal advisors which means that there is always somebody there to give advice to NQT's. It is important that NASUWT NQT members know who their Local Association Secretary and National Executive Member are as well as having the contact details for the appropriate Regional/National Centre.
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Preparing for your First Teaching Post seminars
All NASUWT NQT members are invited to attend our FREE Preparing For Your First Teaching Post one-day seminars after completing their ITT training but prior to taking up their first teaching post. For newly qualified/beginning teachers who qualified in 2009 these seminars took place at venues across the UK throughout August 2009. The seminars aim to give new teachers the confidence to arrive at school for the first day of their new career believing that they are properly equipped to deal with any situation they may be faced with. A selection of images and a video clip from the seminars are available above. Seminar dates for teachers qualifying in 2010 will be listed here as soon as they are available.
A follow-up seminar for teachers who qualified in 2009 took place on 28 November 2009 at the Holiday Inn in Stratford.
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Discounted membership subscription rates for NQT's
NASUWT recognises that the last thing NQTs want to be worrying about is finance. We also recognise the importance of NQTs receiving first-class legal and professional cover as they enter the profession. The NASUWT therefore offers specially discounted rates to all NQT members taking up the benefits of NASUWT full membership, to find out more go to Reductions for New Teachers.
The new Masters in Teaching and Learning
New teachers will be able to advance their teaching skills through a new master's degree being rolled out this year. The NASUWT has been working with the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) and other social partners to develop the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) qualification starting in England in the next academic year. To find out more about the new MTL go the link in the related links section of this page.
