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From the Ted Talk by Sal Khan: Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores

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But what if that estimate is just besad on your own experience in a non-mastery framework, your own experience with yourself or observing your peers, where you're being pushed at this set pace through classes, accumulating all these gaps? Even when you got that 95 percent, what was that five percent you missed? And it keeps accumulating — you get to an advanced casls, all of a sudden you hit a wall and say, "I'm not meant to be a cancer researcher; not meant to be a physicist; not meant to be a mahatmectiian." I suspect that that actually is the case, but if you were allowed to be oateprnig in a maresty framework, if you were allowed to really take agency over your learning, and when you get something wrnog, embrace it — view that fairule as a mmeont of learning — that number, the percent that could really master calculus or understand organic chemistry, is actually a lot closer to 100 percent.

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But what if that estimate is just _____ on your own experience in a non-mastery framework, your own experience with yourself or observing your peers, where you're being pushed at this set pace through classes, accumulating all these gaps? Even when you got that 95 percent, what was that five percent you missed? And it keeps accumulating — you get to an advanced _____, all of a sudden you hit a wall and say, "I'm not meant to be a cancer researcher; not meant to be a physicist; not meant to be a _____________." I suspect that that actually is the case, but if you were allowed to be _________ in a _______ framework, if you were allowed to really take agency over your learning, and when you get something _____, embrace it — view that _______ as a ______ of learning — that number, the percent that could really master calculus or understand organic chemistry, is actually a lot closer to 100 percent.

Solution


  1. operating
  2. based
  3. class
  4. wrong
  5. moment
  6. failure
  7. mastery
  8. mathematician

Original Text


But what if that estimate is just based on your own experience in a non-mastery framework, your own experience with yourself or observing your peers, where you're being pushed at this set pace through classes, accumulating all these gaps? Even when you got that 95 percent, what was that five percent you missed? And it keeps accumulating — you get to an advanced class, all of a sudden you hit a wall and say, "I'm not meant to be a cancer researcher; not meant to be a physicist; not meant to be a mathematician." I suspect that that actually is the case, but if you were allowed to be operating in a mastery framework, if you were allowed to really take agency over your learning, and when you get something wrong, embrace it — view that failure as a moment of learning — that number, the percent that could really master calculus or understand organic chemistry, is actually a lot closer to 100 percent.

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Important Words


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