A 7-year-old Nigerian girl once said to her mother, “Mummy, my teacher makes me so angry sometimes. Two days ago, she taught us, division, yesterday she moved to multiplication, and today she says she’ll be teaching addition and subtraction, yet, me and my friend Titi don’t yet understand the division and multiplication. But she keeps leaving us behind. I’m not sure I’ll ever understand or like mathematics like this😒”.
What do you think is the problem here? Is the teacher being insensitive, or perhaps the kids are just too slow. Either way, there is a gap, and there’s a desperate need to fill it.
This article will tell you why mastery learning is the most important part of personalising education, and why your child needs to participate in the Gradely CatchUp! Challenge that leads to academic mastery so those learning gaps can be filled once and for all.
Several studies purport that Mastery learning is the approach of focusing on making sure a child masters a certain area of a subject before moving on to the next stage. Think about learning a musical instrument, or a dance routine, or maybe even swimming. You wouldn’t really learn anything if your instructor keeps moving on to the next step, style, or stroke as the case may be if you haven’t been able to master the previous one. Imagine how frustrating that could be?
Sadly, some children are still being forced to learn and then move on to the next level together, even if a proportion of the class has started to fall behind, and herein lies the problem.
If every child is forced to carry on to the next level without truly grasping the fundamental principles of the subject, their foundation of knowledge will be compromised. It may not cause large problems instantly, but the further they delve into a subject, the more apparent the gaps will appear to show. Tell yourself what happens to a house built without a strong foundation, does it not begin to crumble? Of course, it does.
What Happens When These Learning Gaps Become Apparent?
Let’s picture bad grades, feeling lost in class discussions, hatred for the subject and even the teacher, and of course, a feeling of being a failure starts to grip in and this causes disengagement.
At this point, a child may simply say that they’re bad at that subject, that they just don’t have a mathematical, scientific, or literary brain. Of course, we all have our favourite subjects and the ones we’re better at than others, but it’s simply wrong for a child to assume they can’t succeed in something. No one’s grades are imprinted in their DNA, we all have the potential to understand and grasp a subject to a certain degree, we just need to learn it correctly at our own pace.
How Would the Gradely CatchUp! Challenge Get Your Child to Academic Mastery?
Studies show that mastery learning was first trialled at the beginning of creating a mass education system, and it vastly improved student’s grades. But, it seemed that at the time, it was a bit too impractical for teachers to carry out in a mass, standardised education system.
However, the education system has greatly evolved since then. With the aid of technology, we can give children adaptive and personalised education to help them catch up, and build mastery where they may be lacking.
Gradely, Nigeria’s first truly personalised learning platform is one of the rarest technological education advancements that paves a way for children to learn at their own pace and fly their way to academic mastery in the subjects they have the most difficulty, with the use of the Gradely CatchUp! AI gamified tool.
Gradely CatchUp! helps children to focus on areas they can improve on, and also helps reframe “failure” in their eyes. This means that with Gradely CatchUp! the feeling of failure shifts to one of practical empowerment, with concrete steps on how to get better without being left behind.
In a bid to make every student a successful learner, Gradely is organising a CatchUp! Challenge that would show you that it is indeed possible for your children to attain academic mastery level in a very short period of time.
The challenge which is based on Mathematics will have participants, study, practice, and take assessments on Gradely CatchUp! for a period of 14 days. At the end of 14 days, every participant that dutifully participated will definitely hit awesome improvement rate records in most topics in mathematics that they often faced difficulty.
However, the top 3 children with the best improvement rate take home grand prizes. Check out the prizes below:
First Prize: One Hundred Thousand Naira (N100,000), a brand new high-tech gadget, and 1-year free access to Gradely CatchUp!
Second Prize: A brand new high-tech gadget, and 6 months free access to Gradely CatchUp!
Third Prize: 6 months free access to Gradely CatchUp!
We will announce the winners at the Gradely live unveiling on February 19th, 2021, and of course, there will be tons of consolation prizes for other participants.
Want to apply? Watch this video to learn how to easily get on board, and fly your kids to mastery. Hurry! there are only 50 slots to fill.
Let us know in the comments if you have any questions or simply call the number: +234 810 059 8268
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Awesome
Thank you Bukola Dike