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Mastery Learning
These experiences reminded me of a framework developed by Noel Burch (but often attributed to Abraham Maslow). This simple four-step model holds the key to acquiring proficiency at a skill, including how to approach mastery as a speaker.
JD Schramm • When striving to be “unconscious” serves you
Britt Gage added
In virtually all areas of learning, you build better mastery when you use testing as a tool to identify and bring up your areas of weakness.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
As a learner, you can use any number of practice techniques to self-test your mastery, from answering flashcards to explaining key concepts in your own words, and to peer instruction
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
Peter Senge, a professor at MIT, describes mastery as something that “goes beyond competence and skills . . . It means approaching one’s life as a creative work.”7
Jeff Goins • The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
Masters, on the other hand, rarely need methods given to them. They prioritize high-level understanding, experiment with various techniques, and craft a strategy that allows them to navigate large and small situations with grace.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
Mastery requires both the possession of ready knowledge and the conceptual understanding of how to use it.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
In virtually all areas of learning, you build better mastery when you use testing as a tool to identify and bring up your areas of weakness. All new
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
Expertise is formed in any area by repeated cycles of learners practicing skills until they are nearly automatic, then having those skills fail in ways that cause the learners to have to think again and learn anew. Then they practice this new skill set to an automatic level of mastery only to see it, too, eventually be challenged.