This is the essential guide to help you as a teacher or trainee work towards and within the framework of the Teachers' Standards and apply them in the classroom.

The book helps you interpret the standards effectively and independently, and to apply them to your teaching. The text enhances your understanding of the standards and shows how their effective application can improve teaching and professional practice.

This fourth edition has been updated to include:
- good practice examples in EY settings, primary and secondary schools.
- guidance on personal and professional conduct online for new teachers.
- new content on the 2019 Ofsted framework's expectations of teaching.