This market leading text for beginning teachers on all undergraduate, postgraduate and school-based routes to qualified teacher status provides an essential introduction to the key skills and knowledge needed to become a successful teacher. Offering advice on all aspects of teaching and learning, this tenth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the field and covers key new topics including artificial intelligence (AI), online pedagogies and working with your mentor. There are also expanded units on diversity and inclusion, teacher wellbeing and professional development.

The text includes a wealth of examples, resources and tasks to support you in successfully applying theory to practice, and in critically reflecting on and analysing your practice to maximise pupil learning. The wide range of pedagogical features supports both school- and university-based work up to Master’s level. Written by experts in the field, the 42 concise units are underpinned by evidence-informed practice and focus on what you need to know to thrive in the classroom, including:

• lesson planning;
• curriculum;
• managing behaviour;
• digital technologies and AI;
• effective communication with pupils;
• how pupils learn, cognitive development, educational neuroscience;
• assessment, marking and feedback;
• neurodivergent pupils, diversity and inclusion;
• special educational needs and disabilities (SEND);
• building resilience, managing stress, workload and time;
• applying for jobs and early career development.

The book is extended and enhanced with digital resources available at routledgelearning.com/learningtoteach. These include downloadable chapter-specific resources, links to useful websites, interactive quizzes and flashcards. You’ll also find animated explainer videos and author-created videos, as well as specific online-only units covering England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Supported by the subject-specific titles in the Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School and A Practical Guide to Teaching Subjects in the Secondary School Series, this book is an essential purchase for every aspiring secondary school teacher.

Sarah Younie is Professor of Education Innovation at De Montfort University and co-founder of the Education Futures Collaboration Charity and the MESHGuides research summaries initiative.

Elizabeth Hidson is a Senior Lecturer in Professional Development and International Education at the University of Sunderland.

Julia Lawrence is Assistant Professor at the School of Communities and Education, Northumbria University, Newcastle.

Nikki Booth is currently a part-time research assistant for the Birmingham Music Education Research Group (BMERG) at Birmingham City University, UK.