This INSET handbook offers induction tutors, head teachers and LEA advisers practical and up-to-date guidance on the statutory programmes of support, monitoring and assessment for newly qualified teachers (NQTs). Based on over ten years' experience of running induction courses, the book: examines what "Circular 5/99", means in practice; explores the Induction Standards; shows how the huge role of the induction tutor can be made manageable; contains useful formats for guiding NQTs and recording their progress; offers help in analysing Career Entry Profiles and setting up an individualized induction programme; suggests ways to monitor and improve teaching through sampling pupils' work, looking at planning and observing lessons; and gives guidance with examples on how to manage the termly assessment meetings and write reports on the NQT. Throughout the purpose is to help hard-pressed tutors and schools make a success of the awesome responsibility they shoulder for admitting NQTs fully into the teaching profession.