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Book SynopsisEffective Classroom Turnaround: Practice Makes Permanent, the third book in the Practices Makes Permanent series, contends that because students learn and behave differently, educators must thoughtfully approach them in the classroom in order to affect change. Like all humans, students respond to conditions around them. Regardless of their habits and behaviors at home or in school, educators can successfully stimulate them to approach education in a new, more positive light. Effective Classroom Turnaround offers teachers over fifty ways to generate cooperation, enthusiasm, and consistent academic success by utilizing principles of learning and motivation that are often ignored or, at best, underused even in the best schools. Embracing the idea that school reform occurs in the classroom, and not in the boardroom, this guide will effectively connect instruction with students' motivation and performance.
Trade ReviewIn this three-book series, John Jensen provides educators with strategies for helping students to “master learning with great pleasure.” This goal is a truly worthy one since students’ experiencing mastery and pleasure is the exception in America’s schools and school systems. Jensen’s philosophy for transforming children’s educational experiences is powerful and his aim to help teachers help their students to achieve remarkable learning outcomes provides readers with a compelling view of what teaching and learning can be. -- Francis M. Duffy
John Jensen has penned a volume that offers a practical path to serving students better. With an admirable focus on the value of practice and the virtue of disciplined effort, he offers advice that educators and parents would do well to heed. -- Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute
Jensen has done it with Practice Makes Permanent—he has given teachers the tools they need to get their students really learning. That means retaining information in long-term memory so it can be recalled weeks, months, even years later. Moreover, he's done it, not in spite of, but capitalizing upon the thing most important to youth—their social relationships. -- Deanna Nelson
This third book in a three-part series on classroom management and improvement is exceptional in its message and how-to strategies. Jensen also authored the first two: Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It (2012) and Changing Attitudes and Behavior (CH, Jan'13, 50-2794). Effective Classroom Turnaround extends the concepts of the other two by providing practicing educators with the strategies needed for assisting students in mastery learning while enjoying the journey to that learning. Providing a step-by-step guide to success is the key to changing students' attitude toward learning so that they enjoy it. This book is filled with practical strategies for implementing change in the classroom so that all students succeed. Further tools are provided in each of the appendixes. Practice does make permanent--enjoyable learning is lasting. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 An Epiphany Chapter 2 Quick Start Methods Chapter 3 Communicate and Connect Chapter 4 Teach Self-Management Chapter 5 Practice Learning Chapter 6 Focus Learning Chapter 7 Replace Grading with Scoring Chapter 8 Demonstrate Learning Appendix 1 Feelings List Appendix 2 First Grade Topics Appendix 3 Fourth Grade Topics Appendix 4 Issues for Middle and High School Students Appendix 5 Advanced Topics Appendix 6 Blank Chart Appendix 7 Points and Mastery Scoreboards Appendix 8 Progress Ladder Appendix 9 Communication Skills Check Sheet Appendix 10 Individual Match Worksheet References
