She defines excellence as the best possible professional preparation of candidates for the secondary teaching profession. Excellence includes “…the ability to recognise and value the varying talents and character of students and assist them to develop their own effective learning and teaching strategies and styles”. Jill has been involved at a national level since the 1980s in the design of art/art history curriculum and assessment and the preparation of materials for teacher professional development. Jill’s students state that her “…pattern of self-evaluation is seen as essential and non-threatening and is adoptive as a methodology by her past and present trainees”.