TIEL Institute -- Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning

Mastery involves meeting expectations and standards. Mastery in learning usually involves specific answers or skills required by someone other than the learner.

Mastery of skills and subject matter is an important goal of school. Mastery in basic skills and subject content is most often focused on convergent thinking measured through standardized testing. Mastery of school skills and subjects is strongly connected to social-emotional well-being. Therefore, during the school years, mastery in school subjects has a positive influence on social-emotional development. Students who are unable to attain mastery or show mastery through standardized testing can be negatively affected social-emotionally.

Convergent Thinking is related to Mastery through the kinds of expectations involved in both. Convergent Thinking and Mastery are most often associated with meeting specific standards or expectations set by others. Convergent Thinking requires right answers, sequencing, and logical thinking in established disciplines, while Mastery involves meeting standards of performance or knowledge defined by others. Education in the 21st century requires Mastery that goes beyond convergent thinking and production.

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