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Action steps from a bank

A fully structured, research-informed bank of action steps to strengthen feedback, coaching, and appraisal within your school or trust.

Looking for clear, high-leverage action steps you can use straight away?

This resource gives you a complete bank of actions across key areas of teaching and learning, all developed from a study of 50 schools’ real-world practice. 

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Lai Tzu

The essential action step resource

This resource gives leaders a complete set of ready-to-use action steps. Each step connects practice to impact, helping teachers understand what to do and why it matters. These action steps are designed to support coaching, mentoring, and appraisal.

Built from real practice

Developed from a study of 50 schools’ existing action steps to understand what works, what doesn’t, and what teachers actually need.

“Do this, so that…” format

Every action step links the strategy to its purpose, making intentions clear and ensuring teachers understand the impact on learning.

Ready to use or adapt

Use the steps as they are, map them to your teaching & learning framework, or adapt them to suit subjects, phases, or individual teachers.

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In schools, every adult matters. As the Education Endowment Foundation said in 2021, “The average impact of the deployment of teaching assistants is about an additional four months’ progress over the course of a year.”

So if we’re using a teaching and learning framework with teachers, it follows that we should be using one with Teaching Assistants too.

ProgressTeaching’s TA Teaching and Learning Framework is based tightly around the EEF’s ‘Deployment of TAs report’, 2025 and weaves in key points about TAs / additional adults from Ofsted’s inspection toolkit.

If you’d like to take a look at the framework in full, you can access it, as well as the recent webinar we ran on the theme, by clicking on the button above.