Introduction
Starting your assessed teaching modules
Planning your sessions
Your first observation
Reflecting on your own practice
What to expect from your mentor
Managing behaviour
Structure and organisation
Coming to the end of your assessed teaching
Your triangulation meeting
Developing your career and applying for jobs

This book provides clear guidance on how to approach initial teaching experience, how to plan effective sessions, how to work well with your mentor and how to make the most out of your new career. Through focusing on the real-life experiences of both in-service and pre-service trainee teachers, it offers the opportunity to reflect on and learn from an array of diverse teaching practice experiences from a wide range of vocational areas including construction, hair and beauty, Early Years, psychology, performing arts, law, English, Skills for Life and engineering.