Our charter school education includes a strong core academic program based on the
concept of mastery learning that is enhanced by extensive higher education opportunities.
And actually, as I wrote this, The Khan Academy did have a nice visual
dashboard of Mastery Learning, plus tons of levels and badges to complete.
Another
benefit of the Mastery Learning Pattern is that it helps you stay aware of what's essential before you move your learner on... and your learners are self - aware of where they stand as well.
Answering these 3 questions will give you the
basis of a Mastery Learning plan - see the breakdown of this model here and learn more about it here.
Educators who attend this seminar will discover the
secrets of the Mastery Learning model, a simple but powerful method that ensures success for all learners.
Once again, Numbers Matter is a good
example of mastery learning and teaching because it doesn't shy away from the facts — the final number does matter — while at the same time creating strong feelings of engagement from students.
Inspired by decades of research and guided by our distinguished advisors from Stanford University, ScootPad's adaptive learning platform harnesses the
power of Mastery Learning and the Personalized System of Instruction to transform student learning.
There, we have provided coaching to Mr. Freeman, a fourth grade teacher, whose approach to personalized learning now includes key elements
of mastery learning in the classroom and teaming up with the families of his students to strengthen family support at home.
Every
description of mastery learning, as well as other interventions such as Understanding by Design (UbD) and RTI, emphasizes the importance of engaging all students in high - quality, developmentally appropriate, research - based instruction in the general education classroom.
Bloom believed that nearly all students, when provided with the more favorable learning
conditions of mastery learning, could truly master academic content (Bloom, 1976; Guskey, 1997a).
Benjamin Bloom (February 21, 1913 - September 13, 1999) was an American educational psychologist who made significant contributions to the classification of educational objectives and the
theory of mastery learning.
Another element
of mastery learning that many other interventions share is the use of regular formative assessments to systematically monitor student progress and give students prescriptive feedback (Hattie & Timperley, 2007).