As its contribution to Nobel Laureate Festival celebrations for 2022, The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia hosted the 6th Annual Patricia Ismond Literary Workshop on Friday 4th March, 2022, under the theme, “Appreciating and Assessing the Power of Poetic and Dramatic Texts”.
This Workshop is dedicated to literary icon and long-serving UWI Lecturer Dr Patricia Ismond, in whose name a scholarship for Saint Lucian students studying BEd Literacy Studies at The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia Site, has been established. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Workshop was hosted online for the first time in 2021; however, the face-to-face modality was re-introduced this year to a limited number of participants.
Tailored to CSEC English B teachers, The 6th Annual Patricia Ismond Literary Workshop welcomed a total of 13 participants from various secondary schools throughout the island. Facilitator of the Workshop and Professor of English at the St George’s University, Dr Antonia MacDonald, posited, “The focus [of the workshop] is not only on the teaching of the subject but also how to measure and evaluate student performance.” Dr MacDonald believes that by training teachers at the CSEC level, the knowledge and skills will be transferred to students in the classroom and increase the chances of them selecting English B at CAPE Literatures in English level. In attendance also was Mr Kendel Hippolyte who addressed the understanding and appreciation of the writer’s craft and skills. 
Participants expressed positive feedback after attending the one-day workshop; one participant stated that, “I realized that it is more meaningful for students when they actually act out the scene… I benefited from Dr MacDonald’s marrying the thematic, character and technique concerns in the play/poem to the requirements of the exam question… it allowed me to better appreciate the demands placed on my students in the exam environment.”
The 6th Annual Patricia Ismond Workshop took place on Friday 4th March, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia Site located at Morne Fortuné, Castries. 
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Since its inception in 1948, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged, regional University with well over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest, most longstanding higher education provider in the Commonwealth Caribbean, with four campuses in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Open Campus. The UWI has faculty and students from more than 40 countries and collaborative links with 160 universities globally; it offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology and Social Sciences. UWI’s seven priority focal areas are linked closely to the priorities identified by CARICOM and take into account such over-arching areas of concern to the region as environmental issues, health and wellness, gender equity and the critical importance of innovation.
