Group Membership

An organisation-wide professional development offer to promote evidence-informed practice.

Group membership of the Chartered College of Teaching is one of the most important levers available to school leaders seeking to raise the status of the profession, through empowering their own staff and underlining the importance of belonging to a professional body. It also serves as a powerful mechanism for professional learning and development.

Investment in group membership is an investment in your students, your staff, your organisation and the wider profession. In an ever-changing educational landscape, group membership provides accredited, rigorous and accessible CPD and resources, for teachers at every stage of their career, and provides tools to engage in research to drive sustainable school improvement.

Group membership with the Chartered College offers learning as a wider trust team which builds our collective wisdom and helps us develop a shared language to drive school improvement. It’s incredibly powerful.

Nicki Antwis

Executive Director of Learning, Diocese of Bristol Academies Trust

Chartered College group membership has inspired and motivated teachers to develop their practice and share this with colleagues both inside and outside of their schools.

Laura Yandell FCCT

Principal Deputy Head (Curricular), Harrow International School Hong Kong

We love hearing from schools and trusts how powerful group membership is: as a mechanism for school improvement, model for staff CPD, driver of retention, or even just as a positive signal of “how we do things here” to staff. If you’re committed to evidence-informed practice, Chartered College group membership underscores that commitment perfectly.

Jonny Goggs

Associate Director - Partnerships, Chartered College of Teaching

Key benefits:

Underline your commitment to an evidence-informed culture and supportive professional environment, which drives greater teacher effectiveness
Become recognised as an employer of choice with organisation-wide designation available for group membership taken out at scale
Gain access to an international network of teachers and school leaders
Open up powerful opportunities for collaborative, whole-school CPD and research engagement
Save money through a cost-effective, sustainable professional development offer, easily aligned to your priorities
Attract, develop and retain staff, sending a powerful signal of the value you place in development and professionalism.

Features for Staff

Group membership will unlock the following benefits for your staff:

Award-winning publications, online courses, bitesize CPD packs and guides to engage with the latest research
Gateway to Chartered Status accreditation for teachers and leaders
Access to the world’s largest education and research database
Awarded post-nomial letters MCCT to recognise their professional status
Invites to networks, webinars and exclusive events
Opportunities to shape the profession and policy through consultations and roundtables.

Here’s what the research tells us:

Having effective teachers is the most important in-school factor for student achievement (Slater et al., 2012; Kane et al., 2013)
Numerous studies have shown that continuing professional development (CPD), which provides opportunities for collaboration and critical reflection, can positively impact teacher effectiveness and student learning (Fletcher-Wood & Zuccollo, 2020; Kennedy, 2016; Sims et al., 2021)
Teachers working in supportive professional environments develop further than their peers (Kraft & Papay, 2014)
The Chartered College of Teaching is your professional body for teaching, a not-for-profit charity independent of government, and a “trusted broker of evidence” (EEF, 2021) on what makes teaching and leadership most effective.

Group packages

We work with a whole range of schools, trusts and organisations at different points in their journey towards embedding a culture of evidence-informed practice. These organisations tend to be in one of three phases, and we offer a package of support that fits with the phase your school is currently at – or where you strive to be – on your research engagement journey.

Phase 1: Starting Out

This phase focuses on raising awareness of Chartered College of Teaching (and wider) resources, so that colleagues know how and where to access content that helps build their understanding of education research

Package 1

Includes:

Chartered College of teaching Membership (inc. journal, member events and MyCollege)
Planning your professional learning course

Example price for 10 teachers and 1 leader: £695

Phase 2: Deepening

This phase is about deepening research engagement in your school; supporting colleagues to apply learning from research and evidence in order to develop practice, and implement evidence-informed approaches in your context.

Package 2

Includes:

Chartered College of teaching Membership (inc. journal, member events and MyCollege)
Planning your professional learning course
Certificate in Evidence-Informed Practice
One place on Development of Teaching Practice Award (Leadership)

Example price for 10 teachers and 1 leader: £1730

Phase 3: Embedding

As the name suggest, this phase is about embedding and sustaining research engagement over time as part of the culture of the organisation.

Package 3

Includes:

Chartered College of teaching Membership (inc. journal, member events and MyCollege)
Full Chartered Teacher or Chartered Teacher (Mentor) pathway (inc. Planning your professional learning course and Certificate in Evidence-Informed Practice)
One place on full Chartered Teacher (Leadership) Pathway

Example price for 10 teachers and 1 leader: £6860

Become a Research Champion

Offer your staff the opportunity to become a Chartered College of Teaching Research Champion. As the Chartered College of Teaching Research Champion they will serve as an advocate for the Chartered College, actively supporting your staff to engage with Chartered College resources and content, with the primary objective of promoting ongoing professional learning and the adoption of evidence-informed approaches within your school context.

Institutional Member Status

We’ve introduced Institutional Member Status and badging to recognise and celebrate the growing number of schools, trusts and organisations who commit to professional learning and evidence-informed practice through the Chartered College of Teaching for all, or the majority, of their staff.