Professional Learning -
Building a Shared Understanding

This video along with reflective questions invites you to consider the impact of your own approach to develop the use of formative assessment to support the best learning and teaching.

This video is for practitioners who want to explore and understand educational thinking on using assessment strategies to support high quality learning and teaching.

This package of professional learning resources aims to enhance knowledge and understanding of effective learning and teaching progression, whilst impacting positively on numeracy attainment.

This resource offers stimulus for professional dialogue and discussion and invites practitioners to reflect critically on their own practice in relation to how observations of learning are gathered, analysed and used to improve learning.

This exemplar captures secondary practitioners engaging in a moderation process over a block of learning in modern languages. 

A selection of resources from the West Partnership exploring the learning, teaching and assessment moderation cycle topics including the role of the learner, learning intentions and success criteria, evidence, feedback and reporting.

These West Partnership resources allow establishments to work collaboratively to identify where they are in their assessment moderation journey. The resource will also aid in identifying strengths and next steps in order to drive forward continuous improvement. 

National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) resource exploring a range of approaches to support development of assessment practice.

Resources for practitioners to use with their school communities to take a deeper dive into the principles of effective transitions.

This resource signposts you to key sessions from the World Education Summit. These sessions have been selected as they support elements within Building a Shared Understanding. Access to the World Education Summit is available to all Northern Alliance practitioners. View this resource for guidance and links to the sessions.