Marzano Mastery Approaches

This book argues that competency-based practices are the key to creating school systems that meet students’ academic needs and prepare students to effectively communicate, collaborate, and self-regulate. With comprehensive coverage of competency-based practices and recommended steps to explore new approaches to instruction and assessment, Marzano Mastery Approaches provides readers with the tools to guide their schools through the necessary decision points for ensuring a profoundly improved and profoundly impactful educational experience.

K–12 school leaders can use this book to:

Consider seven key domains of implementation for competency-based education
Restructure assessment, grading, and reporting systems for mastery
Formalize student outcomes for academic content, cognitive and metacognitive skills, and the self-system
Personalize the teaching and learning process and encourage student agency in the classroom
Shift the roles of educators away from instructing content and toward facilitating learning

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1: The Structural Domains

Chapter 1: Structure and Reporting

Chapter 2: Student Outcomes

Chapter 3: Agency

Chapter 4: Equity

Part 2: The Procedural Domains

Chapter 5: Assessment

Chapter 6: Instruction

Chapter 7: Adult Roles

Epilogue

References

Index