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Mastery
Mastery
The J-Term Mastery experience will offer students a substantial amount of time, space and flexibility within the school day to focus their attention on their Mastery pursuits. For those students who are enrolled in the Mastery Learning System, the experience will also offer students the chance to hit hyper-drive on their MLS project work. This is a space for Mastery students to feed their curiosity, to expand their knowledge, and to develop real-world skill in discovering and solving global-scale problems.
J-Term Mastery Experience
J-Term Mastery Experience
"To inspire a world of happier more meaningful lives."
In the J-Term Mastery program students are given the time to pursue their project while immersing themselves in a global scale problem through things that they are passionate about, and already thinking about through the work they have been doing in their existing Mastery courses. At the start of the program, students were oriented to the schedule, introduced to book clubs, and were given ample time to dive deeply into their work. Students are reading The Talent Code to learn more about how they learn, and how they can develop tools to do their best work. A student described it as a slightly uncomfortable state in which you are pushing yourself just enough. Book clubs are facilitated by mastery faculty and meet three times a week. Lastly, students are learning that the project planning is equally as important, maybe even more important, that the project itself.
In the J-Term Mastery program students are given the time to pursue their project while immersing themselves in a global scale problem through things that they are passionate about, and already thinking about through the work they have been doing in their existing Mastery courses. At the start of the program, students were oriented to the schedule, introduced to book clubs, and were given ample time to dive deeply into their work. Students are reading The Talent Code to learn more about how they learn, and how they can develop tools to do their best work. A student described it as a slightly uncomfortable state in which you are pushing yourself just enough. Book clubs are facilitated by mastery faculty and meet three times a week. Lastly, students are learning that the project planning is equally as important, maybe even more important, that the project itself.
The majority of the time in the Mastery program has been given to students to move their project forward. A few projects are included here.
For my project I am creating a digitally drawn timeline about different moments in history that have related to the theory of evolution through natural selection. When doing research on human evolution I realized that I knew about the different early humans and primates but I didn't know about figures like Charles Darwin who actually discovered the theory of evolution so I wanted to make a timeline about all of the different important events in the history of evolutionary theory. I included a few of the drawings I have made for the timeline.
Jean Baptiste Lamarck: The Giraffe Drawing
Charles Darwin: The HMS Beagle Ship Drawing:
1860 Oxford Evolution: Two guys on the Origin of Species Book who look angry
The Discovery of DNA and Genes: Scientists
Creationism and Evolution Co-existing: The pope and primate holding the Earth
The Discovery of Human Fossils: Two paleontologists digging fossils
Mastery Showcase
Mastery Showcase
On Friday, January 27, the Mastery students had the opportunity to showcase all of the projects they have been working on for the past couple of weeks. Click the arrows below to swipe through some pictures from the showcase!
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