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Teacher-led learning circle in Côte d'Ivoire
Teacher-led learning circle in Côte d'Ivoire

Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment

Spotlight

The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project aims to provide teachers with tools and support to identify and establish effective teacher-led formative assessment practices that can be disseminated within and across education unions.

The project is led by Education International with funding from the Jacobs Foundation.

The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project will operate across classroom, national, and international contexts from 2023 to 2026. The project is being developed in seven countries, with the support of Education International member organisations:

  • Brazil - Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE)
  • Uruguay
  • Côte d’Ivoire - Syndicat National de l'Enseignement Primaire Public de Côte d'Ivoire (SNEPPCI)
  • Ghana - Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT)
  • Malaysia - National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP)
  • South Korea - Korean Teachers and Education Workers' Union (KTU)
  • Switzerland - Dachverband Lehrerinnen und Lehrer Schweiz (LCH)

In each country, the project features three learning circles providing professional development for groups of teachers in order to support their leadership of educational development projects, including understanding and use of formative assessment practices.

News

  1. Leading the profession 1 August 2023

    Teachers as change agents and knowledge creators

    Dr. David Frost

    The HertsCam Network is currently playing an enabling role in the ‘Teacher-Led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment’ project led by Educational International and funded by the Jacobs Foundation. At HertsCam, we are committed to ‘non-positional teacher leadership’ in which any teacher can be empowered and enabled to lead the development...

    Read more Teachers as change agents and knowledge creators
  2. Leading the profession 26 July 2023

    Teachers gather in Brasilia to show what is possible when united through learning circles

    On the 25th and 26th of July 2023, the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project held an in-person seminar in collaboration with the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE) for all participants based in Brazil. The meeting, held in Brasilia, was a powerful representation of what teachers can...

    Read more Teachers gather in Brasilia to show what is possible when united through learning circles
  3. Leading the profession 25 July 2023

    Working with teachers in classrooms to build bottom-up evaluation practices in Brazil

    On the 25th and 26th of July 2023, the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project held an in-person seminar in collaboration with the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE) for all participants based in Brazil. The meeting, held in Brasilia, was a powerful representation of what teachers and...

    Read more Working with teachers in classrooms to build bottom-up evaluation practices in Brazil
  4. Leading the profession 20 July 2023

    Brazilian teachers highlight that work in learning circles must be supported by policy change

    The Teacher-Led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project continues to progress in Brazil, with the aim of providing teachers with the space to identify, test and develop formative assessment practices that respond to the unique learning needs of students in classrooms across the country.

    Read more Brazilian teachers highlight that work in learning circles must be supported by policy change
  5. Leading the profession 12 June 2023

    Learning circles as spaces to engage in pedagogical activism

    On June 5th delegates including those from Education International gathered at the Schools2030 Global Forum 2023 in Porto, Portugal.

    Read more Learning circles as spaces to engage in pedagogical activism
more: News

Publications

  1. Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment

    Teacher-led Learning Circles: Developing Teacher Leadership and Teaching Practice for the Use of Formative Assessment to Improve Students’ Learning

    26 October 2022

    In order to lay a robust foundation for the Teacher-Led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments project, the project’s team of international researchers have conducted an extensive review of pre-existing literature entitled ‘Teacher-led Learning Circles: Developing Teacher Leadership and Teaching Practice for the Use of Formative Assessment to Improve Students’ Learning.’

    Teacher-led Learning Circles: Developing Teacher Leadership and Teaching Practice for the Use of Formative Assessment to Improve Students’ Learning
    1. Teacher-led Learning Circles
    2. Von Lehrkräften geleitete Lernkreise
    3. 교사주도 학습 활동
    4. Learning Circles Pimpinan Guru
    5. Círculos de aprendizagem liderados por professores
  2. Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment

    Teacher-led Learning Circles Project: Research Framework

    26 October 2022

    The purpose of this report, prepared by international researchers Danielle LaPointe-McEwan, Carol Campbell and Christopher DeLuca, is to describe the Teacher-led Learning Circles project’s context and associated research framework.

    Teacher-led Learning Circles Project: Research Framework
    1. Research Framework
    2. Forschungsrahmen
    3. 연구 프레임워크
    4. Kerangka Kajian
    5. Estrutura da pesquisa