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Welcome to the Expansive Education Network
The Expansive Education Network
is a professional learning network for teachers - an approach to teaching
that focuses on developing dispositions that help young people to be fulfilled and successful in their lives
A new series of expansive webinars where Bill Lucas interviews educational reformers and thought-leaders In conversation with Professor Guy Claxton and Rachel Macfarlane, authors of Powering up your school: The Learning Power Approach to School Leadership 10th December 2020 |
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Rethinking assessment for a more expansive education On Sunday 27 September a number of leading educators launched Rethinking Assessment, a new movement to try and ensure our exam system starts to recognise the full range of young people’s strengths. You can read Bill’s blog for the TES here and his critique of the system here. There has been a growing belief that there is something wrong with our assessment system. In particular, people question why we are continuing with the curious anomaly of a school leaving age exam at 16, GCSEs, when young people can’t leave education until 18. As expansive educators many of us have found GCSEs to be a very poor measure of the full range of dispositions we want young people to develop. It’s an indication of the seriousness of the challenge we face that (Lord) Kenneth Baker, the creator of GCSEs, thinks it is time for them to go. We hope you will join the movement by signing up here. |
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