John Jensen

Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It

Practice Makes Permanent

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Produktbeschreibung

Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century-the design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of mastery. This book explains the psychological dynamics and methods involved in mastery, and how to apply them easily in K-12 learning. A basic insight is that once students have a correct answer to any question, a straight road to its mastery is entirely comprised of practice. Practice continues to "make perfect" in all skill areas including the accumulation of a body of knowledge. Outlined here are the forms of it that enable students to master academic learning perfectly and permanently, as well as become competent with social/emotional skills and alter their behavior. A combination of methods especially valuable for students falling behind can turn classrooms around quickly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: R&L Education
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9781610487320
• ISBN-10: 161048732X
• Artikelnr.: 34388398

Autorenporträt

John Jensen is a psychologist and educational consultant.  He has studied child motivation and applied methods to classrooms since 1971.      

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1. First, Practice - The nature and importance of practice
Chapter 2. Accumulate Knowledge - US education subverts mastered knowledge
Chapter 3. Practice Requires Effort - The essential place of focused effort
Chapter 4. Effort in the Inner Venue - Connect learning to effort inside
the mind Chapter 5. Practice by Explaining - The central role of explaining
learning Chapter 6. Developing a Mental Field - What comprehension looks
like inside Chapter 7. Practice Saves Prior Learning - The cycle of
deepening understanding Chapter 8. Practice Behavioral Knowledge - Knowing
as the first step to doing Chapter 9. Students Talk Meaning - How to help
students express what's important Chapter 10. Practice on Substantial
Topics - Weight fundamental issues Chapter 11. Score the Results
Objectively - How scoring can energize learning Chapter 12. More Ways to
Use Scoring - Tracking progress on many fronts Chapter 13. Practice for
Performance The motivational spur from performing Chapter 14. The High
School Vise: Four Problems Working around limitations Chapter 15. Seven
Steps to Turn a Class Around Key levers for a distracted class References