Working in Partnership with Other Centres
Lead centres for Asset Languages facilitate training and support for around ten centres in their area looking to use or enhance their usage of Asset Languages. The Cluster Support Group provide forums for discussion and the sharing of best practice as well as providing direct communication with Asset Languages. Please email us at assetlanguagesclustersupport@ocr.org.uk to find details of your local Cluster Support Coordinator. Please see the documents below for details of how Cluster Support Groups work and the local authority areas where we have Cluster Support Groups.
In order to provide the best possible service to centres and their candidates entering for Asset Languages external assessments and, recognising the diverse relationships within and between centres, we have devised three models to suit:
- centres that are willing to act as a host for candidates from other centres
- centres willing to coordinate the administration on behalf of a group of centres
- centres with multiple sites.
Note that, for teacher assessment, it may not be necessary to create a formal consortium.
- Model A - Regional hosting centres - A single centre registers for Asset Languages and acts as a testing venue for its own candidates and other candidates within the area. This model is particularly suitable for a local centre that agrees to host small numbers of candidates from a number of different centres or is running a minority language on behalf of schools in the area.
- Model B - Parent centres - This model is ideally suited to a group of schools that wishes to share the administration for Asset Languages, e.g. a secondary school and its primary feeder schools that share resources for language teaching. The model has two options, allowing candidates either to sit for Asset Languages external assessments at their own centre or at the parent centre.
- Model C - Split-site centres - This model is intended for centres with a single administrative venue, but multiple teaching/testing venues, e.g. an FE College with several sites across a city.
For more information, please see Section E of the External Assessment Reference Guide:
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