The professional standards tool allows you to navigate through the standards, seeing how one area builds on and progresses to another.
The tool cross-references each career stage (QTS, core, post threshold, excellent teacher, advanced skills teacher), with each area of teachers’ work, from relationships with children and young people to team working and collaboration.
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Getting started
When you open the professional standards tool, you will see the first set of core standards: relationships with children and young people.
The career stage and the topic area you are currently viewing are highlighted, eg.:
Navigating through the standards
a) Read the standards in sequence
You can use the next or previous links to go to the following or preceding standard:
b) Compare the standards
You can compare standards with the other career stages by clicking the leads to or builds on links:
This way, you can see how you should progress in each area.
Where you don’t see the leads to or builds on links, this means there are no further standards to progress to for that topic area.
Example
From the first position (core teacher – relationships with children and young people), you can see there are no standards to progress to in this topic area. Click the link to read the next core standard (frameworks). You can now see a leads to P1 link – click it. This shows you how to progress to the post-threshold career stage in this topic area.
b) Jump directly to a standard
You can also go directly to a standard or topic area you want to read about by:
i. selecting the career stage you are interested in at the top of the page, eg.:
ii. clicking on the topic area or standard at the bottom of the page, eg.:
Download the standards
You can download a PDF of all the standards, or all those relevant to any career stage, by following this link on each page:
