For PGCE trainees in England
Your Teachers' Standards portfolio, built as you teach
Someone can fail you on this. Praxis turns the planning you already do into the evidence trail your mentor and assessor will read.
A sample trainee's Record, as Praxis draws it.
It notices what an assessor would
Praxis reads your own record and says what no generic tool can. Gaps are named while there is still time to close them.
No evidence against TS5 (adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils) for 9 weeks.
- Year 8: Selection in Python
- Year 9: Binary addition
Computed from your own plans, reflections and syllabus, not generic advice.
Ready for the weekly meeting
The review your mentor reads, and the forms your provider asks for, come from the same record.
The mentor loop
Prepare each weekly review before you meet: how far last week's targets have come and where the evidence is. Your mentor gets their own free account and reads it before you meet. Reviews are free on every plan, and so is inviting your first mentor on each placement.
Your provider's forms, printed
Praxis authors, your provider receives its own template. The University of Winchester's school-led route is modelled in full: print, save as PDF, upload. Printing them is part of the Praxis Pass, free to try through your formative placement.
- Weekly review (week 1 and week 2 onwards)print · PDF
- Lesson observation recordprint · PDF
- Lesson design templateprint · PDF
- ITaP bookletprint · PDF
Rosenshine, B. (2012). Principles of Instruction: Research-based strategies that all teachers should know.
Built for the Teachers' Standards
The free plan covers planning, coverage, the Record, your weekly reviews and your first mentor on each placement. Your provider's forms, the tracker and readiness are the Praxis Pass. No card, and everything you make stays yours.
When you qualify, the same record carries on into your ECT year.