165: Setting Up Mastery-Based Grading in Your Classroom
The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
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Mastery Checks - What's the Difference?
A lot of teachers, especially when you're in the in person setting, they have a mastery checked zone in their classroom. It's an actual area of their classroom that's silent. A lot of teachers will use colored paper for mastery checks so that you can see very clearly a kids on a mastery check, they shouldn't be talking. Try to keep it bite size. You know, ideally a kid can do this under 10 minutes, even under five minutes at best. I feel like need to actually show all seven variations on an assessment and if kids can't do all seven variations, then they didn't master the skill. That's overkill.
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