When done well, mastery-based learning ensures that each and every student leaves K-12 schools prepared for postsecondary education or the workforce. Credit: Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for ...

One of the problems put forth by education researcher Benjamin S. Bloom was how to deal with the dramatically different student results produced by three different methods of training. Those methods ...

Incorporating UDL strategies into your teaching can improve student learning, increase mastery of learning ...

Recently, a group of elementary students from Henry County Schools, near Atlanta, engaged “community experts” in a round of feedback conversations while working on an authentic task. The driving ...

NEW YORK — At New York City’s Urban Assembly Maker Academy high school in lower Manhattan, two things immediately stand out. First, its teachers are rarely standing at the front of the classroom ...

Writing a negative blog post about “competency-based learning” is dangerous! After all, how can any sane educator be against children developing competencies? So, we need to be very clear: We are not ...

As the nation’s public schools grapple with helping students overcome learning losses exacerbated by pandemic closures, a long-simmering movement toward competency-based education — sometimes called ...

Regular, actionable narrative feedback is the fuel for learning, but when it comes to communicating mastery, the standards should be affixed. Presumably, students are working on specific skills and ...

It’s time to rethink Bloom’s ladder. Learning is mastery, made observable in the ways students act, adapt, and solve problems ...

Dear Lloyd, The learning institutions have changed their teaching methods and affected our cognitive abilities at the same ...

Learning outcomes and objectives are the fundamental elements of most well-designed courses. Well-conceived outcomes and objectives serve as guideposts to help instructors work through the design of a ...