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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms.

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Discovery Education’s K-12 Learning Platform Earns Learner Variability Product Certification From Digital Promise

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The Learner Variability Product Certification uses a competency-based learning framework, developed in consultation with Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Project advisory board, expert researchers, and nearly 50 educators across the United States. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., LinkedIn.??? .

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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

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Mandy Froehlich on episode 192 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn how she uses this tool. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format.

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Amazing Grace Adkins – my 89 year old learning lab director and the most amazing woman I know

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Grace Adkins on episode 191 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format.

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She Hired Me! Betty Shiver, the woman who convinced me to become a teacher

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Betty Shiver on episode 194 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. The post She Hired Me!

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Brent Johnson: My student’s views on learning and teaching

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Brent Johnson on episode 193 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. Brent Johnson is a senior at Westwood Schools.

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5 Ideas for Fantastic Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Dyane Smokorowski on episode 195 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. We do it on Twitter. Dyane: Right!