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Written by authors who have written questions for the test themselves, and published by Learning Matters, this is your essential guide to the Professional Skills Tests for Trainee Teachers.    Bruce Bond has been involved in writing, editing, observing, reviewing and trialling the QTS Literacy Skills Tests  for over 10 years. He has also been closely associated with the national development and evaluation of the Initial Teacher Training pilots in invidividual learning plans, mentoring, and teaching observation and practice. Bruce has over 30 years of experience teaching English and literacy in SEN, primary, secondary and further education sectors and is now an educational consultant and author of literacy assessments.    Jim Johnson is an Honorary Fellow of Nottingham Trent University where, until his retirement, he led the English team in the Department of Primary Education.    Mark Patmore was until recently a senior lecturer in mathematical education in the Department of Education at Nottingham Trent University. He is an Associate of the AlphaPlus Consultancy and has written for the QTS Numaracy Skills Test.    Nina Weiss has worked in education for over 30 years. Since 2008, she has been authoring and editing the QTS Literacy Skills Tests. Nina currently teaches English and adult literacy at City and Islington College and is an external examiner for teacher training courses at the University of Greenwich and the Institue of Education, London.       Acknowledgements    We would like to thank the following contributors who responded to questions on applications and interviews to ITT, and shared their thoughts and comments, for the final chapter.   Doreen Challen, Primary PGCE Tutor, Southampton Education School   Jean Conteh, Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, University of Leeds   Richard English, Programme Director for the Primary PGCE Course, University of Hull   Suzanne Horton, Senior Lecturer in Primary Initial Teacher Education, University of Worcester   Angela Major, Principal Lecturer in Education, University of Roehampton   Ceri Roscoe, Assistant Head of Primary Programmes with particular responsibility for the BA Primary Education, Manchester Metropolitan University   Debbie Simpson, Interim PGCE Primary Programme Leader, University of Cumbria      The numeracy glossary is reproduced courtesy of the TA - Teaching Agency for Schools.   Permission to reproduce TA copyright material does not extend to any material which is indentified as being the copyright of a third party or any photographs. Authorisation to   reproduce such material would need to be obtained from the copyright holders.   The publishers would like to thank the TA for permission to use the audio icon. This has been taken from the practice Literacy Skills Test on the TA website www.education.gov.uk and is the copyright of the Teaching Agency.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49511638073617,"sku":"GOR005067682","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1446267555.jpg?v=1751019862"},{"product_id":"getting-into-teacher-training-book-bruce-bond-9781526427793","title":"Getting into Teacher Training","description":"Are you thinking about applying to teacher training in England?  Not sure where to start or what to expect?      This is your comprehensive go-to guide with helpful information and advice to help you on this very special journey ahead! Written by experts on initial teacher training in England, this guide:      helps you understand the many different routes in to teaching  provides essential information about the education sector and the different types of state schools  offers advice and practice tests to pass the mandatory Professional Skills tests in numeracy and literacy  gives insight about the application process and helpful tips to confidently face your interview     Everything you need to know to secure your place on a teacher training course - now in one easy accessible guide!","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49562404749585,"sku":"GOR009466613","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49600824672529,"sku":"GOR011169343","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49637829050641,"sku":"GOR010053698","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734903955729,"sku":"NGR9781526427793","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52536369021201,"sku":"NLS9781526427793","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1526427796.jpg?v=1751118689"},{"product_id":"passing-the-professional-skills-tests-for-trainee-teachers-and-getting-into-itt-book-bruce-bond-9781473913455","title":"Passing the Professional Skills Tests for Trainee Teachers and Getting into ITT","description":"\"I found this book very informative. It is clearly set out and the chapters are clear. I particularly liked how you can test yourself on all areas then check the answers along with an explanation. At the end of the book is a honest account from someone who completed their QTS and I enjoyed reading this.\" - Stephanie Kane, Teacher Training Candidate         \"I will recommend this book because it is up to date and because it covers both literacy \u0026amp; numeracy skills tests. It explains coherently what the tests are for. It shows how rigorous they are and why they are important - showing how they impact practice even if not in the trainee′s specialist area. Everything a potential ITT trainee needs to know is covered. and shows it is more than just about passing the tests. There are good practice questions. IN a nutshell - everything a trainee needs is here!\"    -Mrs Sarah Barton, School of Education, Portsmouth University       If you are applying to teacher training in England, you must pass your Professional Skills Tests for Trainee Teachers before you can start your training.           Written by authors who have written questions for the test themselves, this is your guide to how to prepare for, approach and succeed in the Professional Skills Tests for Trainee Teachers. It takes you through how the tests work and includes hints and tips on what to expect and how to respond. It offers clear and concise guidance on revision and examples of questions so you can prepare for the tests and pass.    This second edition has been updated with added practice questions, and a new chapter with trainee and tutor profiles giving you up-to-date and focused insight into how to get into teacher training, and what it′s like to complete the course.    How to use this book   The first chapter in this book will help you understand the context of the skills tests and direct you to useful sources where you can conduct your own research into schools and education. Having a familiarity with key terms and issues in education will prove useful both when approaching the skills tests and also at a later date when you apply for a training place. Subsequent chapters will outline the content and structure of the literacy and numeracy skills tests and offer you practice questions. Then there is a chapter designed to support your application to teacher training courses and provide suggestions and advice for the interview process. Finally, for this second edition a new chapter ′What is teacher training really like?′ offers you real insight into intial teacher training from the point of view of the student and the tutor.           About the authors   Bruce Bond has been involved in writing, editing, observing, reviewing and trialling the QTS Literacy Skills Tests for over 10 years.    Jim Johnson is an Honorary Fellow of Nottingham Trent University where, until his retirement, he led the English team in the Department of Primary Education.    Mark Patmore was until recently a senior lecturer in mathematical education in the Department of Education at Nottingham Trent University.   Nina Weiss has worked in education for over 30 years. 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At times meditative and melancholic, though also vibrant and full of life, Invention of the Wilderness proposes an embodied and reflective way of being in the world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361905447185,"sku":"CIN0807177962VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52136789246225,"sku":"NLS9780807177969","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740207935761,"sku":"NIN9780807177969","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807177962.jpg?v=1761390851"},{"product_id":"frankenstein-s-children-book-bruce-bond-9780999199411","title":"Frankenstein's Children","description":"Frankenstein `s Children explores Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a lens into contemporary loneliness and hunger, fantasies of reanimation and artificial thought born of a dread that would deny or master the necessities that define us, join us, tear us apart. 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They would interrogate the creature as the dream he is, still, and the one he is not, full of real rage and confusion and the immaterial mystery of choice, that contradiction in his nature that makes him—and us—free to wander and console.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372184047889,"sku":"CIN0999199412VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0999199412.jpg?v=1781779737"},{"product_id":"therapon-book-bruce-bond-9781946482990","title":"Therapon","description":"In Therapon poets Bruce Bond and Dan Beachy-Quick engage in a dialogue of near-sonnets, both personal and cultural, that explore the unfinished, haunted, and unrepresentable nature of selfhood as best suggested and enlarged in gestures of exchange. 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In this way Therapon finds in dialogue not only its medium but its fascination, a sense of setting forth in friendship, and in friendship the mercies of the strange.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50397742563601,"sku":"CIN1946482994G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50993645715729,"sku":"NIN9781946482990","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1946482994.jpg?v=1751029849"},{"product_id":"choreomania-book-bruce-bond-9781952335075","title":"Choreomania","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50993711513873,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50993714430225,"sku":"NIN9781952335075","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52673657831697,"sku":"NLS9781952335075","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1952335078.jpg?v=1751125663"},{"product_id":"blind-rain-book-bruce-bond-9780807133088","title":"Blind Rain","description":"In his newest collection, Blind Rain, Bruce Bond transforms the known and the familiar into something surreal and new. 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As a lens into contemporary life, the title sequence interrogates the vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose sense of our increasingly interwoven cultural conversation figures now as a premonition of the internet.  If his hope for the noosphere as a fulfillment of divine promise feels problematic, it nonetheless sees our globe as an organism whose long-term survival depends on the capacity of each to forge friendship across difference, to take the health and integration of the individual as emblematic of the whole.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51043723837713,"sku":"NIN9781647791735","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51202137882897,"sku":"NGR9781647791735","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1647791731.jpg?v=1761387383"},{"product_id":"calling-book-bruce-bond-9781643171524","title":"The Calling","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51111099793681,"sku":"NIN9781643171524","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52483193274641,"sku":"NLS9781643171524","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1643171526.jpg?v=1751310637"},{"product_id":"visible-book-bruce-bond-9780807142684","title":"The Visible","description":"In The Visible, we enter into a surreal landscape \"\"where it is neither day nor night \/ but both at once,\"\" where light becomes an imaginative force that both illuminates and obscures. 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