Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent [Paperback]

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

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 Americas schools and school systems. Jensens philosophy for transforming childrens 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

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