Standard Four: Use a Mastery Learning Approach and Effective Teaching Strategies

Standard Four: Use a Mastery Learning Approach and Effective Teaching Strategies

Raising student achievement scores can be accomplished using a conceptually simple formula. Teach what you test, teach it the way you test it some of the time, and vary teaching methodology accordingly so that mastery is assured. Putting this formula on paper is easy, but we all know how difficult it can be to implement this type of process in both a consistent and persistent manner. The “Teach what you test” and “Teach it the way you test it” sections have been covered in other portions of this book. This segment focuses on the last part of the formula: “Vary teaching methodologies accordingly so ...