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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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.