This positive guide to professional issues in the Learning and Skills Sector tackles the challenges and anxieties faced by trainee teachers. It examines issues surrounding values and ethics from a variety of perspectives. Everyday examples and case studies are used to help the reader place issues in a working context. It is ideal reading for trainees wanting to understand their responsibilities to students and professional colleagues. Of use to qualified teachers as well as trainees, this book is an essential guide to becoming a professional tutor and is matched to the professional and ethical components for achieving QTLS.

The classroom and the collegeWorking in the lifelong learning sectorCodes of practiceContinuing professional developmentWorking with young peopleDefining professionalismReflective practiceThe centrality of learning and learner autonomyEquality, entitlement and inclusiveness