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Diary of a headteacher: What makes teachers stay teaching?

Leadership/school profiles
What makes a teacher stay in the profession for 20 years and still retain a love of teaching? Rather than guessing, Tom Donohoe asks one of his most dedicated teachers

The job of headteacher is certainly varied, I am sure we would all agree with that. Recently I found myself at a “pop up” event at a local university to promote teaching as a career for graduates to consider.

The event was organised by the National College for Teaching and Leadership and was part of a nationwide marketing campaign.

Clearly, as the headteacher of a school with a SCITT I had a bit of my own agenda to attend, so I agreed to support the event and took three other members of Anton staff along.

I had taken with me one of our current SCITT trainees, an NQT who had trained with us the year before and Bree House a year 6 teacher who leads on English, art and drama at Anton. After we put our Train to Teach hoodies on, we were given instructions on how to approach students and record their details on the iPads provided.

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