Showing posts with label Mastery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mastery. Show all posts

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Essentials for Mastery

Catlin Tucker shares 5 Musts for Mastery, prerequisites for mastery learning to happen.  Tucker states that we can master a concept or skill but that is not the endpoint.  Absolute mastery is out of reach;  there is no dead end in learning.  His '5 Musts' may seem surprising to you, but in reality they are not 'mastered' but are important for real learning to take place.









Five Musts for Mastery.  Catlin Tucker.  December 2013/January 2014.  ASCD Education Leadership.
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec13/vol71/num04/Five-Musts-for-Mastery.aspx

So Many Ways to Interpret Mastery

We all have slightly different interpretations of what it truly means to master a skill.  Our math and reading programs are skill based and we test for individual mastery.  But what actually does that mean to the student, to the teacher, or to the parent.  This excellent article deals with these issues and more.  Not to be missed!

How Good is Good Enough? Grant Wiggens.  December 2013/January 2014.  ASCD Educational Leadership.
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec13/vol71/num04/How-Good-Is-Good-Enough%C2%A2.aspx