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Education needs to be personalized in ways that help every unique child master what they learn.
We believe learning poverty will end when education provides mastery learning that is supported by educator and family ecosystems, through schools that are focused on mastery learning excellence, and ministries of education that are committed to championing, funding, and delivering mastery learning to all children.
Limitations of ProficiencySince proficiency is based on summative assessments, its pedagogies favor breadth of coverage over depth of skills acquisition.
Power of MasteryMastery is a real-time feedback loop that continually evaluates the depth to which a child has grasp of knowledge and command of skill.
Architecture of UnderstandingWhen children move on only after mastering each skill, they build solid foundations across the knowledge map of skills they need to learn.
The Zone of Proximal DevelopmentLev Vygotsky discovered that children’s learning can be optimized by focusing learning on skills that are just beyond their ability to master without help, and by providing support through engagement of more knowledgeable others, a skillful tutor, and scaffolding.
Bloom’s 2 Sigma ChallengeBenjamin Bloom observed that children who receive tutoring perform better than peers in conventional classrooms. He challenged the world to find methods of group instruction that could be as effective as one-to-one tutoring, and thus personalize learning at scale.
All children can learn. But conventional approaches to education often cause children to believe that they cannot learn.
Mastery learning can help a child discover their identity as a learner and see themselves as they truly are.
Every child is marvelous and unique, with great potential to master what they learn and make a difference with what they master.
When a child discovers their Mastery Learner Identity, they begin to experience themselves as curious, confident, capable, and creative.
Such a child will never experience learning poverty.
1. CuriousThe child has a positive self-concept and is motivated to explore, discover, and understand the realities and relationships of the people and planet around them.
4. CreativeThe child experiences self-actualization through their ability to use what they have mastered to develop new knowledge, skill, abilities, and achievements.
2. ConfidentThe child has healthy self-esteem based upon who they believe they are, what they can do, and the feedback they receive from people in their mastery learning ecosystem.
3. CapableThe child has self-efficacy based on their belief in their capacity to master what they learn, and evidence from their performance of mastered tasks at a high level.
1. CuriousThe child has a positive self-concept and is motivated to explore, discover, and understand the realities and relationships of the people and planet around them.
2. ConfidentThe child has healthy self-esteem based upon who they believe they are, what they can do, and the feedback they receive from people in their mastery learning ecosystem.
3. CapableThe child has self-efficacy based on their belief in their capacity to master what they learn, and evidence from their performance of mastered tasks at a high level.
4. CreativeThe child experiences self-actualization through their ability to use what they have mastered to develop new knowledge, skill, abilities, and achievements.
Personalized Mastery Learning Ecosystem™The Personalized Mastery Learning Ecosystem is a conceptual framework for the development and implementation of our mastery learning programs. Our approach puts children at the center of supportive learning environments that include the school, classroom, and home. Ecosystems where children can achieve mastery through the blending of applied learning science with adaptive, personalized technology.
Mastery learning can help bring learning poverty to an end. With the dedicated support of policymakers, funders, implementers, and sector experts, we can help children master what they learn.
70 percent of children worldwide are facing learning poverty. They are reaching the age of 10 without being able to read simple sentences, complete basic math, establish strong learner identities, or build social relationships.
Age of Learning Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. 100% of public donations go directly to fund learning projects.