What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Cool Cat Teacher by Vicki Davis

Sep 8, 202611:35Education

Mastery learning is the driver's-test rule applied to school: if a student fails the test, they take it again until they pass. Jon Bergmann teaches that way, full time, in chemistry and physics. This is in the Top 10 of...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from 10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Cool Cat Teacher.

Blended Learning Best Practices That Still Hold Up (Recorded 2021) - episode #5 of all time

Sep 11, 2026 - 13:02

NUMBER 5 IN OUR COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 10 EPISODES OF THE FIRST 1,000. This one originally aired in 2021 an...

How to Teach Writing with Digital Media

Sep 10, 2026 - 13:31

Dr. Sarah Levine taught secondary English in a Chicago public school for ten years, where she founded a y...

Neuroscience Research: 5 Ways to Superior Teaching

Sep 9, 2026 - 15:00

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath has lectured at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Melbourne...

Engage Every Learner: 8 Timeless Classroom Principles #9 Episode (updated for 2026)

Sep 7, 2026 - 50:10

Eight ways to engage every learner — recorded in 2021, and every principle still works. This was in our a...

Are You an Upset Teacher? How to Understand What Is Wrong (#10 of all time)

Sep 4, 2026 - 09:27

This is in the Top 10 of the First 1,000 — a countdown of the ten most-downloaded episodes in the history...

AI in Schools: Stop AI Detection, Start Learning Detection

Sep 3, 2026 - 20:16

AI with intention. AI with integrity. Is it possible? Tony Frontier, author of AI with Intention , is tal...

Academic Integrity: What 22 Confessions Taught a Teacher

Sep 2, 2026 - 16:27

Tim Plaehn is a teacher who writes about honor codes. In his writing class last April, he believed he had...

How to Build Your Own Data Dashboard: No Coding Required

Sep 1, 2026 - 15:58

A.J. Juliani has been leading cohorts of educators and administrators to learn how to build data dashboar...