Passing the professional skills tests for trainee teachers and getting into ITT

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.

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.

Also included is essential information on teaching and schools, knowledge of which may help you pass the tests, and information on how to successfully apply to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in England.

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.