Teaching students to work harder and enjoy it : practice makes permanent /

"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 psych...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jensen, John, 1935-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • First, practice
  • the nature and importance of practice
  • Accumulate knowledge: US education subverts mastered knowledge
  • Practice requires effort: the essential place of focused effort
  • Effort in the inner venue: connect learning to effort inside the mind
  • Practice by explaining: the central role of explaining learning
  • Developing a mental field: what comprehension looks like inside
  • Practice saves prior learning: the cycle of deepening understanding
  • Practice behavioral knowledge
  • knowing as the first step to doing
  • Students talk meaning: how to help students express what's important
  • Practice on substantial topics: weight fundamental issues
  • Score the results objectively: how scoring can energize learning
  • More ways to use scoring: tracking progress on many fronts
  • Practice for performance the motivational spur from performing
  • The high school vise: four problems working around limitations
  • Seven steps to turn a class around key levers for a distracted class.