Designed to support trainees in understanding and meeting the broad professional requirements of the Professional Standards for QTS

Considers in depth key professional issues, including planning and assessment, management, organisation and delivery, children and individual needs, becoming a professional

Each section includes specific references to the Professional Standards for QTS, practical tasks and illustrations to highlight important concepts, signposting to further reading and useful websites to extend trainees’ understanding and a conclusion

Specific topics within the text are cross-referenced to earlier sections so that trainees can make links with broader professional knowledge and skills

Easy to follow and well presented with clear objectives stated at the beginning of each section. Key questions/discussion points prompt the trainee to relate the guidance provided to their own experience and therefore rehearse their own thinking and understanding.