Chapter 2~ "Fair Isn't Always Equal"

Summary:

Chapter 2 was about students’ mastery of concepts. What is mastery? “Mastery is more than knowing information” it is about being able to manipulate and apply the information learned successfully and in a way which proves you can adapt it to different situations. How do we tell if a student has mastery of a concept? Mastery has to be assessed in a different way, most likely more than one time. We should, as teachers, use the six facets to determine if a student has truly mastered the topic. It is also important to determine which material to focus on. In order to do this we should refer to multiple sources, some of which would be mentor teachers, provincial standards, and programs of study.


Reflection:

Luke believes that the “mastery if concepts is very important to the education of our nation. If students can show mastery of concepts, the concepts will potentially stay with them for the rest of their lives.” Megan declares that today students are “taught to cram, cram, cram! Today in the world we have to go from test to test and it makes everyone stressed out because everyone feels they need to know everything just to get something right on a test.” Heather believes that in students “teachers should want to see real interest in the subject matter, deep knowledge of it, application of it, and the student’s personality in it.”