"A Guide to Teaching Practice" is the most comprehensive text available for students on initial teacher training courses across all phases. The book's focus on the quality of teaching and learning and consideration of the latest regulations and guidelines ensures that it fits comfortably within current statutory frameworks. Revised and updated, this authoritative yet accessible textbook covers all the important basic skills and issues that students need to consider during their practice, such as planning, classroom organisation, behaviour management and assessment, as well as chapters on: the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS); legal issues; learning and teaching and using ICT in the classroom; teaching and learning numeracy; teaching and learning literacy; children's rights; and, gifted and talented children.

This respected and widely used textbook will be an essential resource for any student teacher. Additional learning resources for students are provided on a companion website, which contains further research, important links and downloadable materials. The website also contains information to make this book more relevant to international audiences.