Teacher-led learning circles for formative assessment

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 -Federación Uruguaya de Magisterio - Trabajadores de Educación Primaria (FUM - TEP)
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

Standards and working conditions 4 April 2024
Unions unite to fight for empowering professional learning and development

The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project brought union leaders, project participants, and wider EI membership together to reflect on how to promote and strengthen their position on professional leadership, develop pedagogical activism, and resist the discourse around assessment standardisation.
Read more Unions unite to fight for empowering professional learning and development
Standards and working conditions 1 April 2024
Breaking Boundaries: Teacher-led Learning Circles in Uruguay Persist to Develop Promising Formative Assessment Practice

Unlike primary school teachers involved in the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project in its six other countries, the 20 teachers participating Uruguay have been involved in an accelerated programme of Professional Learning and Development (PLD).
Read more Breaking Boundaries: Teacher-led Learning Circles in Uruguay Persist to Develop Promising Formative Assessment Practice
Leading the profession 27 March 2024
Transforming Learning: Brazilian Teachers’ Use Learning Circles to Develop Leadership Projects and Promising Formative Assessment Practice

Primary school teachers across Brazil have successfully completed the first Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project cycle. Through developing leadership projects over the last year, teachers involved in the remote Learning Circles tested, implemented, and shared promising formative assessment practices that met the diverse needs of students in...
Read more Transforming Learning: Brazilian Teachers’ Use Learning Circles to Develop Leadership Projects and Promising Formative Assessment Practice
Standards and working conditions 15 March 2024
Leaders of Learning: Teachers in Malaysia use Learning Circles to Introduce Innovative Formative Assessment Practice

Since March 2023, with the support of the National Union of the Teaching Profession Malaysia (NUTP), 30 primary school teachers have transformed learning in classrooms from Penang to Kuala Lumpur through leading the development of formative assessment practices in their schools.
Read more Leaders of Learning: Teachers in Malaysia use Learning Circles to Introduce Innovative Formative Assessment Practice
Standards and working conditions 1 March 2024
Transformative Impact: Learning Circles for Formative Assessment Support Teacher Leadership and Student Learning Across Ghana

Thirty-six primary school teachers across Ghana’s Central, Ashanti and Upper East region have taken part in the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) Project to identify promising formative assessment practices that address issues that are unique to the country’s context.
Read more Transformative Impact: Learning Circles for Formative Assessment Support Teacher Leadership and Student Learning Across Ghana

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Publications

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
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