The craziest thing about science teaching is the *expectation* to just teach all three sciences to gcse level as a subject expert, when the reality is the science teacher did a biology degree and is now being expected to teach transformers to their top set year 11s.
I've taught outside of specialism before, but always had some lessons of my 'own' subject.
This year I am totally outside of specialism. My message would be to check in on any colleagues in this position as it is brutal.
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