Effective Classroom Turnaround: Practice Makes Permanent

Effective 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.

Table of Contents:
Preface Chapter 1An Epiphany Chapter 2Quick Start Methods Chapter 3Communicate and Connect Chapter 4Teach Self-Management Chapter 5Practice Learning Chapter 6Focus Learning Chapter 7Replace Grading with Scoring Chapter 8Demonstrate Learning Appendix 1Feelings List Appendix 2First Grade Topics Appendix 3Fourth Grade Topics Appendix 4Issues for Middle and High School Students Appendix 5Advanced Topics Appendix 6Blank Chart Appendix 7Points and Mastery Scoreboards Appendix 8Progress Ladder Appendix 9Communication Skills Check Sheet Appendix 10Individual Match Worksheet References

About the Author :
John Jensen is a clinical psychologist licensed in Alaska. He has been investigating child motivation and learning since 1971.

Review :
In 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. 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. 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. 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