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The Madeline Hunter Model of Mastery Learning

Learning experiences designed using Hunter's lesson planning model are highly structured and repetitive. The model was developed by the late school director and longtime teacher Dr. Madeleine Hunt. The traditional steps of Hunter's lesson planning model are designed to get students right the first time. Some school administrators mistakenly use the model to analyze learning outcomes. Note that Dr. Throughout her life, Hunt emphasized that her program was never intended for her model to be used as a teacher evaluation tool. Indeed, as an experienced educator, I'm sure Hunter knows that there are many good teaching models besides herself, and that good teaching is as much an art as it is a science, and therefore cannot be classified as a Simple Formula 7-step checklist. Chief Hunter developed his model using the science and knowledge of his time. I classify this model as a standard direct instruction behavior technique and modified operant conditioning, and it just begins to remember information processing. Hunt knew that the human brain maps a path when it learns. She wants to make sure teachers give students little or no room to "make mistakes" or articulate the wrong neural pathways. Madeline Hunter did this because research at the time showed that it took more time to relearn a material or skill than to learn it correctly the first time.

Over the years, Madeline Hunter's proposed elements of curriculum design have evolved. Step by step lesson plan, "seven step lesson plan", clear direct instruction, gradual release of responsibility and other organizers and similar programs. The course design is based on a research-based approach to improvement.

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Likelihood of learning and retention. Hunter elements are not meant to be part of every lesson. They are also not carried out in one study cycle, although they will appear in a typical unit plan consisting of:

Severalclassesoverseveral days.Learningprinciplesunderlietheelementsofcurriculum design suggested by Hunt et al.

They will come later. It is recommended that teachers keep a few oceans for lesson planning and creation relations with students. MOTIVATION: RICKS THINKS Concentrate!

• External and/or internal awards

• Interest in a topic or activity because of its novelty, vividness, or importance/relevance for students

• the level of excitement (anxiety) caused by taking on responsibilities and working during the specified hours; visible or predictable to others

• Understanding the results

• success

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