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Implementing Mastery Learning
The definitive classic--updated for our times.
After 50 years, Benjamin Bloom's revolutionary work on mastery learning is more relevant than ever. One of the most widely researched and proven-effective education methodologies in existence, it provides a direct challenge to the traditional, deterministic, time-based approaches to teaching and learning that have perpetuated inequities for generations of children.
Mastery learning is the progenitor of many of today's most promising teaching methods, including competency-based learning, personalized instruction, and differentiated instruction. It helped to elevate the importance and use of formative assessment as a powerful instructional practice. This timely new edition of the foremost practical guide includes:
Recent applications of the principles of mastery learning to distance, hybrid, and blended learning environments Updates including evidence from recent implementation efforts, the results of the most current research on mastery learning and its implications for practice Step-by-step guidance on implementation across grade levels and subject areas Supplemental, on-line chapters that unpack the development of effective formative assessments and connections between RTI and mastery learning Written by one of the most highly regarded scholar/practitioners in the field and the leading interpreter of Bloom's work, this updated guidebook is essential reading for teachers, school leaders, professional learning communities, and anyone who believes that all students can learn well, achieve success, and become confident learners.
After 50 years, Benjamin Bloom's revolutionary work on mastery learning is more relevant than ever. One of the most widely researched and proven-effective education methodologies in existence, it provides a direct challenge to the traditional, deterministic, time-based approaches to teaching and learning that have perpetuated inequities for generations of children.
Mastery learning is the progenitor of many of today's most promising teaching methods, including competency-based learning, personalized instruction, and differentiated instruction. It helped to elevate the importance and use of formative assessment as a powerful instructional practice. This timely new edition of the foremost practical guide includes:
Recent applications of the principles of mastery learning to distance, hybrid, and blended learning environments Updates including evidence from recent implementation efforts, the results of the most current research on mastery learning and its implications for practice Step-by-step guidance on implementation across grade levels and subject areas Supplemental, on-line chapters that unpack the development of effective formative assessments and connections between RTI and mastery learning Written by one of the most highly regarded scholar/practitioners in the field and the leading interpreter of Bloom's work, this updated guidebook is essential reading for teachers, school leaders, professional learning communities, and anyone who believes that all students can learn well, achieve success, and become confident learners.
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February 8, 2023
This book outlines processes for implementing mastery learning in a classroom or school from the planning through to managing and evaluating the success of mastery learning. The book is clearly written with concrete guidance and lots of useful templates and examples. The downside is the repetition. The managing stage repeats much of the information from the planning stage, for example, often using quite similar language. The redundancy makes the book unnecessarily long and at some points tedious. Having said that.... it is an excellent initial guide for any teacher or school who wants to understand what mastery learning is and implement it in their context.
July 12, 2023
While I definitely took away a few practical ideas from this text, I found a lot of this book to be more antiquated and/or geared towards teachers newer to the profession. This is definitely a good resource for reconsidering entire assessment processes.
July 24, 2023
A helpful 101 book for mastery learning exploring the history and implementation of the pedagogy. Gusky gets a bit repetitive and specific without getting granular, which actually felt frustrating when I was hoping for more details.
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