Chris Edwards

Self-Taught (eBook, ePUB)

Moving from a Seat-Time Model to a Mastery-Learning Model

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475868197
• Artikelnr.: 66898173

Autorenporträt

Chris Edwards has had his "connect-the-dots" teaching methodology published by the National Council for Social Studies, is the author of two books of philosophy, and is a frequent contributor on topics of law, logic, and theoretical physics to the science and philosophy journals Skeptic and Free Inquiry. He proudly teaches world history and Advanced Placement world history at a public high school in Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

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