ASCD publishes The Mastery Learning Handbook: A

Arlington, VA, Nov. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ASCD, the nation’s main affiliation for Ok–12 educator skilled improvement, introduced the publication of The Mastery Learning Handbook: A Competency-Based Approach to Student Achievement. Mastery studying is an educational strategy that empowers each pupil, at each degree, to progress with confidence. The Mastery Learning Handbook is each an introduction to this educational strategy and a sensible useful resource for Ok–12 lecturers. 

Authored by educator Jon Bergmann, a pioneer of the flipped classroom motion, the handbook includes a step-by-step rationalization of the mastery studying cycle, together with templates, fashions, and rubrics Ok–12 lecturers must implement mastery studying within the classroom. Using versatile pacing and focused helps, lecturers information college students via a cyclic means of preparation, demonstration, and formative suggestions till there’s a mutual settlement between instructor and pupil that the scholar is able to advance.

Common-Sense Strategies for Mastery Learning Implementation

Ok–12 educators, together with instructor leaders; educational coaches, curriculum coordinators, and educational leaders, akin to principals, will discover this handbook’s recommendation and instruments helpful for:

• Setting significant, measurable, and transferable studying goals that concentrate on important information, expertise, and tendencies
• Developing a mastery rubric to examine for pupil ranges of proficiency
• Creating an evaluation plan that ensures optimistic studying experiences for all
• Planning and delivering models that incorporate each time-shifted direct instruction and collaborative utility actions inside the classroom area
• Providing well timed differentiated assist, based mostly on college students’ particular person studying wants

Praise for The Mastery Learning Handbook

“Jon Bergmann has provided educators and school leaders with the definitive guide to effectively implement mastery learning in schools. Not only does this book build the case for mastery learning in theory, it also lays out detailed strategies and proven practices that teachers can readily deploy in their classrooms. If your goal is to learn how mastery and competency-based instruction can fundamentally transform your classroom practice, start here!”
—Tom Driscoll, CEO, EdTechTeacher

“This book is like having a mentor at your side as you plan for mastery learning. It nudges, supports, and guides you as you focus on the biggest of challenges of teaching: making sure every student has mastered the concepts before moving on. An important resource for all teachers.”
—Jeane Schocroft, deputy principal, Open Access College, Marden, Australia

“I have not read a more insightful and practical guide for teachers working to improve their craft and to understand not just the why but the very practical day-to-day how of mastery-based learning. Jon Bergmann’s research, interviews, first-hand experience, and humility all combine to make The Mastery Learning Handbook comprehensive, usable, and delightful to read.”
—Patricia C. Russell, chief studying officer, Mastery Transcript Consortium

About the Author

Jon Bergmann is a highschool science instructor in Houston, TX, and a former math instructor and know-how coordinator who has been efficiently utilizing mastery studying methods along with his college students and coaching lecturers on the strategy. An in-demand keynote speaker, he’s a pioneer of the Flipped Classroom Movement. He has helped colleges, universities, organizations, and governments everywhere in the world introduce energetic and flipped studying into their contexts. Bergmann was acknowledged with the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching and named a finalist for the Brock International Prize for Education and a semi-finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year. He is the creator of quite a few books, together with the worldwide bestseller Flip Your Classroom (a joint publication of ASCD and ISTE), and serves on the advisory board for TED Education.

For extra, observe Bergmann on LinkedIn, YouTube or Twitter. Visit his weblog, web site, or podcast, Making Mastery Learning a Reality One Day at a Time.

For extra info on ASCD’s skilled improvement books and sources, go to www.ascd.org/books.

About ASCD

ASCD is a passionate neighborhood of life-changing educators. Our neighborhood is empowered to be fairness and educational warriors who remodel imaginative and prescient into observe. For 75 years, we now have labored aspect by aspect with educators from each degree in all 50 states and greater than 200 international locations to assist them discover their folks and amplify their voices to achieve many. Our skilled studying companies let educators chart their very own studying journey, as educators, and as leaders, in order that they and their college students can flourish. Learn extra at www.ascd.org and go to ASCD’s digital studying neighborhood to view a full slate of educator skilled studying alternatives and conferences.

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