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10 Principles of Mastery-Based Learning
To help schools establish a philosophical and pedagogical foundation for their work, the Great Schools Partnership created the following “Ten Principles of Mastery-Based Learning,” which describe the common features found in the most effective mastery-based systems.
21st Century Student - Mastery-Based Learning
From cell phones and video games to Facebook and YouTube, digital media are changing the way young people play and socialize in the 21st century.
Action Planning - Mastery-Based Learning
The Cycle of Action is a simple tool developed to frame the critical steps schools take when engaged in an evidence-based, goal-driven school-improvement process designed to raise the educational achievement, aspirations, and attainment of all students.
Additional Communications Tools
Brochures, handouts, and presentations about how Mastery-Based Learning meets the needs of students and how it is different from traditional education
Assessment - Mastery-Based Learning
A core tenet of mastery-based learning or competency-based pathways (CBP) is that accurate, credible and useful student assessment information plays an essential role in supporting learning. Assessments should be a meaningful learning experience for students, provide rich information to educators so they can provide targeted support to students, and send students and parents clear signals about students’ readiness for next steps.
Book Resources - Grading - Mastery-Based Learning
Written resources for developing and implementing grading procedures in Mastery-Based Learning.
Communication - Mastery-Based Learning
A variety of communications toolkits are available to assist schools and school districts in explaining the changes necessary to implement Mastery-Based Learning.
Community Engagement - Mastery-Based Learning
Engaging communities is an essential step in the conversion from a traditional, time-based system to a personalized, competency-based one. The following resources may be helpful to developing a community engagement strategy and communications capacity.
Connecticut State Standards - Mastery-Based Learning
Standards define the goals of education- what students need to learn- not the processes of education or how schools are structured or how they operate. In recent years, a guiding principle in K-12 standards has been to clearly define what students should know and be able to do through out their K-12 experience anchored in college- and career-ready expectations.
Definitions of Different Types of Competencies - Mastery-Based Learning
State standards provide the foundation—the grade-level learning progressions that teachers use to design their curriculum—but schools determine how standards will be implemented, including which standards must be met.