Self-Taught
Moving from a Seat-Time Model to a Mastery-Learning Model
1st Edition
Published on 28. September 2022
134 pages
978-1-4758-6819-7 (ISBN)
Description
The American educational structure is a feudal system designed around an inefficient seat time model. This structure sets students against each other in competition, creates zip-code inequalities, and empowers an expensive and often damaging bureaucratic class of administrators. Due to shortages of teachers and staff, and to needless problems with curricula and testing, this system is about to fall. Historically, when feudal systems collapse, they create opportunities for new structures to emerge. Technology has made it possible to develop a new educational model that connects students to their community and reduces pressure on students and teachers. This new model makes it possible to deliver high quality education for all students, regardless of zip code, while turning students into active learners. Self Taught: Moving from a Seat Time Model to a Mastery Learning Model explains how this process can begin by asking just one question: what would you do if you needed to learn something?
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-4758-6819-7 (9781475868197)
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Book
10/2022
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€98.40
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Person
Chris Edwards, EdD teachers AP World History and an English course on critical thinking at a public school in the Midwest. He is the author of numerous books, a frequent contributor to Skeptic magazine, and was the principal investigator and director for a summer STEM teacher developmental program.
Content
Introduction
Chapter One: The Civilization Conversation
Chapter Two: The Brain and Education
Chapter Three: The Seat Time Model
Chapter Four: The Seat Time Model and Society
Chapter Five: The Mastery Learning Model
Chapter Six: Why Education is Sequestered from Economic Trends and Innovation and How to Change This
Chapter Seven: Workforce Development
Conclusion
References
Chapter One: The Civilization Conversation
Chapter Two: The Brain and Education
Chapter Three: The Seat Time Model
Chapter Four: The Seat Time Model and Society
Chapter Five: The Mastery Learning Model
Chapter Six: Why Education is Sequestered from Economic Trends and Innovation and How to Change This
Chapter Seven: Workforce Development
Conclusion
References
