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What I wish I'd known in my first five years of teaching languages
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that belongs only to new teachers. Bone-deep, relentless, the kind that comes from caring enormously, trying everything, and still feeling like you are somehow getting it wrong. I remember it clearly. And I remember wishing, more than once, that someone would sit down next to me and say: here is what actually matters. So this post is that conversation. Not a how-to guide, not a research summary, just the things I genuinely wish someone
Silvia Bastow
Sep 67 min read


Making yourself redundant – what I have learned about mentoring trainee teachers
This blog post was written by Stefanie Green. About the author of the post: Stefanie has been a teacher of German, Spanish and French for...
Silvia Bastow
Jan 12, 20256 min read
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