Semester courses are designed to account for learning throughout the year, and are coded with N in the third position, indicating that students are mastering course content on a year-long schedule.
For example, Theater meets during the school day in the first semester and students attain the majority of their content mastery while the course is meeting consistently. In the second semester, the Theater teacher organizes a week long after school Theater Festival. The students who participate in the festival have the content knowledge mastery that they demonstrate accepted by the teacher and their grade is correspondingly updated.
As a result, the Mastery based system flexibly permits teachers to identify opportunities for students to attain credit for their growing mastery throughout the year, and accurately reflects the on-going learning that students undertake.
Semester courses are designed to account for learning throughout the year, and are coded with
Nin the third position, indicating that students are mastering course content on a year-long schedule.For example, Theater meets during the school day in the first semester and students attain the majority of their content mastery while the course is meeting consistently. In the second semester, the Theater teacher organizes a week long after school Theater Festival. The students who participate in the festival have the content knowledge mastery that they demonstrate accepted by the teacher and their grade is correspondingly updated.
As a result, the Mastery based system flexibly permits teachers to identify opportunities for students to attain credit for their growing mastery throughout the year, and accurately reflects the on-going learning that students undertake.