Welcome to Teacher Support Network’s Starting Out Guide for Newly Qualified and Trainee Teachers. Our guide has been in previous years a printed item, the pff of which you can find here. This year we decided to transform the guide into a living document on the web. We not only want to provide you with the best advice for kickstarting your new career, we wanted to create a place where you can offer feedback to one another as well as improve the guide itself. Get the printable pdf of our Starting Out Guide here.
This page is more about the technical side of our website. If you’re looking for something that’s more about the teaching end, you’re better off looking here.
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Site Text (excluding Routes Into Teaching)
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Text from the Routes Into Teaching section
This section of our Starting Out Guide contains a good amount of information from the Training and Development Agency for Schools. You can find out more about TDA by clicking here. If you would like to distribute this content, you should contact TDA for permission. Teacher Support Network’s fair use agreement (as described above) applies.
Site images
Images that include photographer attribution are courtesy of Flickr’s Creative Commons-licensed content. Other photo art depicting actual teachers comes from private photographers copyrighted work, paid for by Teacher Support Network, and their work is not to be distributed without prior authorisation.
Technical minutea
All parts of this site were built using open source tools or code released under GPL or Creative Commons use agreeements.
The Starting Out Guide was built on WordPress and it’s design is based on the theme The Unstandard Remix 1.0r by Jon Gos and Derek Punsalan and The Unstandard by Derek Punsalan for 5thirtyone. The Starting Out Guide theme: called The Undstandard Guide, is by Andrew Ford Lyons. A generic version of the theme is forthcoming for distribution under a share-alike creative commons license.
The Starting Out Guide employs several plugins native to Wordpress, among them, heavily edited versions of Customize Your Community and Cimy User Extra Fields as well as Live Comment Preview, Multi-page Toolkit, ShareThis and WP-Polls.
User images that accompany comments on the site are from gravatar and hosted externally.
