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…