Q. What is Content Mastery?

A. It is designed to assist identified learning and at-risk students achieve ther maximum potential in the mainstream classroom.

Q. What student benefits from Content Mastery?

A. A student who:
1. Is retained and is still having trouble the second time around.
2. is an MTA student experiencing diffuculty in teh classroom.
3. failed one or more parts of the TAAS test.
4. is a 504 student who has been offered Content Mastery.

Q. How does Content Mastery help a student?

A. Services include, but are not limited to the following:
1. Reading tests to students and or assisting teachers with test modifications.
2. Helping with a worksheet, written assignment or anything involving textbooks.
3. Studying for tests and exams.
4. Discussing individual student's strengths and weaknesses with classroom teachers.
5. Monitoring student's progress and placement.
6. Aiding in student's organization.
7. Test taking skills
8. Strategies which help develop "study skills" independence.
9. Developing student responsibilty.

Q. When can a student come to the Content Mastery room?

A. A student may leave the regular classroom adngo to CM only when independent work is being done. The student must be in the regular classroom during direct instruction, class discussion, group work, cooperative learning, peer tutoring, experiments or films.