Self-Taught

Chris Edwards

doi:10.5771/9781475868197

Self-Taught

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

1. Edition 2022

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doi.org/10.5771/9781475868197
ISBN print: 978-1-4758-6817-3
ISBN online: 978-1-4758-6819-7
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Abstract

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?

Schlagworte

Teacher Empowerment Testing Education Reform

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i–xx Preface i–xx
1–12 1. The Civilization Conversation 1–12
13–26 2. The Brain and Education 13–26
27–42 3. The Seat-Time Model 27–42
43–64 4. The Seat-Time Model and Society 43–64
65–74 5. The Mastery-Learning Model 65–74
75–94 6. Why Education Is Sequestered From Economic Trends and Innovation and How to Change This 75–94
95–104 7. Workforce Development 95–104
105–108 Conclusion: How Do We Do This? 105–108
109–112 Bibliography 109–112
113–114 About the Author 113–114

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