Webinar as part of European Vocational Skills Week 2020.

12 November 2020
12pm British Standard Time (BST)

Each person has gone through many experiences throughout their lives – we have seen this for centuries, and we can all tell many of our own stories.

What is currently measured through formal examinations in school does not correspond to the actual level of competence(s) of the examined students.

Through the use of portfolios, we can create a holistic and relevant assessment system that really measures and represents the level of competence of the students.

From the working world’s perspective, we will finally see certificates that represent real acquired/achieved skills.

Dr Urs Hauenstein’s portfolio methodology has been used in WOB Bozen, Italy, for many years. In this webinar, Markus Feichter (WOB’s Director) and Dr Urs Hauenstein will showcase portfolio exams, with examples.

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Dr Urs Hauenstein is the President of the International Council for Education and Management (ICEM), the Association of Swiss Quality Competencies Qualifications (SQCQ), the Institute of Competencies and Qualifications (I-C-Q) and the International Network for Accreditation, Recognition and Dissemination (INARD). As Distinguished Visiting Professor he supports Warnborough College and other Universities in (Eastern)Europe and UK as Senior Researcher and External Examiner for Benchmarking.

One of his expert fields for 20 years has been lifelong learning and outcome-oriented education. He has carried out work with competence and qualification portfolios in over 1000 cases of schoolchildren, students and adults, and accompanied and re-evaluated them. His competency portfolio is one of the first to capture formal, non-formal and informal learning.

Markus Feichter is the Chair of WOB in South Tyrol, Italy. He is a pedagogical expert and teacher for sustainable creative learning. In this role, he also set up a teacher training institute and set himself the goal of sustainable pedagogy with a strong connection to life and nature. He attaches great importance to alternative pedagogical methods, such as the pedagogy of Rudolf Steiner, Maria Montessori, Peter Petersen and others. He further developed this pedagogy in his school and put it into practice. In this way, he not only supports students but also the teachers and parents involved. In this activity, he has given practical and project learning a large part in his curriculum. For years he has included alternative tests/exams with a portfolio in the WOB and thus used more humane quality tests and assessments.