mastery learning
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MASTERY LEARNING. P. 65, Elliott. What is the focus of Mastery Learning?. What is the focus of Mastery Learning?. •A system of major objectives b roken down into smaller units of objectives, skills, and tests, that are in a sequence for mastery of the whole set. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
MASTERY LEARNING
P. 65, Elliott
What is the focus of Mastery Learning?
What is the focus of Mastery Learning?
•A system of major objectivesbroken down into smaller units of objectives, skills, and tests, that are in a sequence for mastery of the whole set.
What is the focus of Mastery Learning?
YES, break down all the information into pieces,
then systematically bring them back together
again.
Give some descriptions of how a
student should PRACTICE
in Mastery Learning:
PRACTICE
PRACTICE• •small amounts• •short, intense practice
periods• •frequently for new info.• •regularly for old info.• •repeated practice
Relate this PRACTICE
strategy to your own life?• •small amounts
• •short, intense practice periods
• •frequently for new info.• •regularly for old info.• •repeated practice
What else does the teacher focus on during PRACTICE?
What else does the teacher focus on during PRACTICE?• •MONITOR students to make sure
they are not practicing mistakes, especially at the beginning.
• •GIVE SPECIFIC FEEDBACK AND RESULTS, immediately.
• •EXPECT HIGH ACCURACY 90% before student moves on to next sequenced skill or lesson.
Mastery Learning builds on the
VALUE of PRACTICE
“PRACTICE IMPROVES PERFORMANCE”
More and more PRACTICE and
TEACHING• •ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES for
practice until mastery is achieved….• •RE-TEACHING STRATEGIES to fit
a variety of learning modalities, intelligences, students’ strengths and needs.
• •MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES to make experiences meaningful for every individual!
• (Mastery teachers KNOW their students).
The TEACHER aggressively
reinforces previous learning, as new
information is added.••Continuously REVIEWS the older material to tie it all together.
How would you be a mastery teacher,
and continuously review older
material, regularly?
BELL WORK? MATH?
••SOLVING 3-4 PROBLEMS WRITTEN ON THE BOARD TO REVIEW BASIC COMPUTATIONAL
OPERATIONS?
BELL WORK? ENGLISH?
•Daily Journal prompts: How would you describe a good
friend?
BELL WORK? ENGLISH?• •D.O.L.
•Daily Oral Language: Writing sentences on the board with grammatical errors and fixing them .
Social Studies?
• •D.O.M.•Daily Oral MAPS:
Projecting an outline map on the screen/board and locating countries.
weekly Current Events?
What would be the most important,
basic, foundational,
“must-know” skills that you would definitely
want your students to KNOW when
theyexited your class?
A mastery teacher identifies, in
advance, ways to demonstrate
learning outcomes to students.
WHAT IS
IMPORTANT?
… Learning outcomes that are
very similar to a Marzano-designed, backwards mapping
unit.
A Marzano-designed, unit is one way to help the mastery
teacher determine whether individual
students are mastering the
content.
Mastery Learning can be very SELF-DIRECTED and SELF- PACED.
Students cannot move to the next skill in
sequence until they have mastered with
a 90% accuracy. This takes
PRACTICE and RE-TEACHING in a new
and more diverse way.
Mastery Learning helps students
extend their thinking to levels of
analysis, synthesis and evaluation,
which enables them to transfer
meaning from one subject to another.
How could you integrate Mastery Learning in your
instruction?
What are the pros and cons about
letting students keep trying until they ‘get
it’ ? What is your opinion on
learners who master skills at their own
developmental pace and time?
REFLECT…