A Guide To Teaching Practice is the major standard text for students on initial teaching training courses. It covers the important basic skills and issues that students need to consider during their practice, such as planning, classroom organization, behavior management and assessment. The book's focus the quality of teaching and learning and consideration of the latest regulations and guidelines ensures that it fits comfortably with TTA and OfSTED frameworks.. In addition, comprehensively revised and fully updated, this 5th edition features brand new chapters on the foundation stage, legal issues, learning and teaching and using ICT in the classroom, as well as new material on numeracy, literacy, children's rights, progress files, and gifted and talented children.