Mastery Learning

Implementation of Mastery Learning

The mastery learning instructional process (Guskey, 2007).

Why Mastery Learning Supports Student Learning

• Teach with purpose (high-quality instruction)

• Formative assessment

Teachers can see patterns of learning and correct them

• Readings

How People Learn: brain, mind, experience and school

Understanding by Design (2000).

Evidence of Effectiveness• Students reach higher levels of

achievement in mastery learning

classes

• Students develop greater

confidence as learners

Ontario Curriculum Expectations●Build a strong foundation in the areas of reading, writing

and mathematics

●Use this as a foundation for academic achievement

●Experience lifelong success

How does Mastery Learning Align with the Ontario Curriculum Expectations?●Focusing on mathematics

○ Number sense and numeration strand

○ Specific expectation for Grade 2 - represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 100, including money amounts to 100¢, using a variety of tools (mathematics, p. 43)● Mastery Learning

○ Pre-assess - concepts learned in grade 1○ Deliver the first lesson to support the expectations○ Formative assessment○ Enrichment & corrective activities○ Deliver the second lesson to support the

expectations

Mastery Learning and Assessment

●Formative assessment

●Corrective activities and Enrichment activities

●Second parallel formative assessment

Assessment and the Ontario Curriculum

●Overall expectations

●Specific expectations

References

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Bloom, B. S. (1984). The search for methods of group instruction as effective as one-to-one tutoring. Educational Leadership, 41(8), 4–17.

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Guskey, Thomas R. (2007). Closing achievement gaps: revisiting Benjamin S. Bloom's "Learning for Mastery". Journal of Advanced Academics, Fall, Vol.19(1), p.8(24) .

Guskey, T.R. (2010). Lessons of Mastery Learning. Educational Leadership, 68(2), 52-57. Retrieved from

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct10/vol68/number02/Lessons-of-Mastery-Learning.aspx

National Research Council. (2000). How Experts Differ From Novices. In How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School: Expanded Edition. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Ontario Ministry of Education. (2005). The Ontario curriculum grades 1-8: Mathematics. Retrieved from

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/math.html

References Continued

Ontario Ministry of Education. (2009). The Ontario curriculum grades 1-8: The Arts. Retrieved from http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/arts.html

Ontario Ministry of Education (2010). Growing Success: Assessment, evaluation and reporting in Ontario schools. Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Education. Retrieved from http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/policyfunding/growSuccess.pdf   

Ontario Ministry of Education. (2015). Elementary Education. Retrieved from www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/elementary.html

Stellan [Screen name]. (2011, October 1). Assessment for Learning [Web blog post]. Retrieved fromhttp://www.kinberg.net/?p=769