SSAT is a membership organisation, bringing together schools and academies from across the UK and globally committed to achieving deep social justice. They offer insight and understanding into school practice and educational policy and research. Their professional development and school improvement programmes help leaders and teachers to further outcomes for all young people and develop leadership at all levels across the system.
SSAT have secured significantly subsidised places from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), through the DfE’s Accelerator Fund. As a result, they can now offer funding for their Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) programme to 150 state funded schools with a secondary phase in England. Learn more here.
The Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) programme by SSAT includes 16 cycles of deliberate practice focused on trialling and refining formative assessment strategies. These cycles are supported by discussions about evidence around a particular technique or approach and include the development of detailed action plans and regular feedback. Teacher Learning Communities collaborate, peer observe and discuss progress and challenges, and reflection is built into these sessions through a set series of questions asked by a designated Challenger. Although evidence of the action plans and feedback is gathered during each stage, there is no formal assessment or certification at an individual level as part of this CPD. However, the programme includes a high degree of rigour throughout.
A great deal of this work is analogous with the deliberate practice within the Expertise in Teaching Certificate portfolio and overlaps with our Chartered Teacher Status Professional Principles.
There Chartered College of Teaching is therefore delighted to offer a bespoke form of Recognised Prior Certificated Learning for the Expertise in Teaching Certificate for teachers who have completed the EFA programme as directed.
