This popular text guides trainee secondary teachers through the teaching requirements for initial teacher training and the Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status. It focuses on a range of key topics, summarises key educational research and includes school-based practical tasks. This new edition is fully updated throughout to include developments in the KS3 Strategy, a new chapter on Managing Behaviour for Learning and a revised chapter on the major developments in the 14-19 curriculum. In addition, this book now comes with extensive website support.