Effective Classroom Turnaround: Practice Makes Permanent

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.

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.

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