5:30-7:00 pm Monday 22 February 2021, via Zoom

OUR NEXT EDUCATION CAFÉ®.

In conversation with Professor Bill Lucas – University of Winchester

Rethinking Assessment – recognising all the strengths of a young person.

The pandemic is causing countries across the world to cancel or modify exams. But in truth there has been a growing belief that there is something wrong with our examinations and assessment system. Headteachers, teachers, students, parents, and businesses are now raising big issues about how we can do things better in the future. With a wide range of educators, Professor Lucas has created a new movement, Rethinking Assessment, to come up with alternatives which better recognise the strengths of all young people. In this session Prof Lucas will give an overview of practices from across the world and discuss with us the ways in which we can learn from them.

The event will begin with a short presentation from Prof. Lucas, to be followed by a conversation with STE team member Colin Johnson. Depending on numbers participating we will then either break into Zoom chat rooms for group discussion, or remain as a single group. In any case there will be a closing plenary session in which Prof Lucas will take questions.

Bill Lucas is Professor of Learning and Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester, a role he combines with advising organisations across the world and being a strategic adviser for the new 2021 PISA Test of Creative Thinking.