Achieving Outstanding on Your Teaching Placement : Early Years and Primary School-Based Training

Making a success of your teaching placement is a vital part of achieving Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). With a focus on practical, this book provides essential guidance on how to translate the ′outstanding′ criteria into practice. The authors break down the OfSTED criteria so that you can identify the skills and knowledge you need to make the most of your placements.

Packed with case studies, practical tasks and links to the (QTS) standards, the book is structured around:

• Developing professional knowledge
• Planning
• How to be an outstanding teacher
• Classroom management
• Teamwork
• Assessment
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

This book will help trainees make the difficult jump from ′good′ to achieving an ′outstanding′ on their placements.

Jonathan Glazzard is Professor of Teacher Education, Head of Children, Education and Communities, Edge Hill University.


Jane Stokoe has over thirty years experience as a primary school teacher. She has spent almost 20 years in Early Years and Key Stage 1, and is passionate about her role as a classroom practitioner with young children.