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Hacking Student Learning Habits: 9 Ways to Foster Resilient Learners and Assess the Process Not the Outcome
Look what happens when assessment becomes a simple student-driven process
Traditional outcome-based grades make school a place of right or wrong answers, a rigid system that stalls enjoyment and learning. In contrast, innovative teachers of all subjects and grade levels use process-based assessment to build positive classroom cultures and foster resilient learners who focus on the learning, not the grades.
Award-winning writer and teacher Elizabeth Jorgensen shows how to create process-based assessments that help students develop habits of higher-order thinking. It is about embracing, trying, failing, and trying again, and turning “ What did you get on the test?” into “ How did you get that on the test?”
In Hacking Student Learning Habits , you’ll learn how Want a new classroom culture? Read Hacking Student Learning Habits today, and enjoy an impactful change.
Traditional outcome-based grades make school a place of right or wrong answers, a rigid system that stalls enjoyment and learning. In contrast, innovative teachers of all subjects and grade levels use process-based assessment to build positive classroom cultures and foster resilient learners who focus on the learning, not the grades.
Award-winning writer and teacher Elizabeth Jorgensen shows how to create process-based assessments that help students develop habits of higher-order thinking. It is about embracing, trying, failing, and trying again, and turning “ What did you get on the test?” into “ How did you get that on the test?”
In Hacking Student Learning Habits , you’ll learn how Want a new classroom culture? Read Hacking Student Learning Habits today, and enjoy an impactful change.
- GenresEducation
218 pages, Paperback
Published April 14, 2022
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About the author
Elizabeth Jorgensen
4 books170 followersHer memoir, Go, Gwen, Go: A Family’s Journey to Olympic Gold is available now (Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2019). She hopes you’ll buy it from a local bookseller.
Elizabeth Jorgensen is a writer and teacher. Born and raised in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Elizabeth spends her free time watching the Real Housewives with her aging Cockapoo, Branji. When she's not watching Bravo, she enjoys meeting fitness goals and training with Ryan Bloor at Right Body Fitness. And taking selfies with her favorite people.
Elizabeth Jorgensen is a writer and teacher. Born and raised in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Elizabeth spends her free time watching the Real Housewives with her aging Cockapoo, Branji. When she's not watching Bravo, she enjoys meeting fitness goals and training with Ryan Bloor at Right Body Fitness. And taking selfies with her favorite people.
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April 26, 2022
As the author of this book, I hope you see yourself and your students in every chapter. I hope you also gain practical ideas for how to get your students to practice every day. I would love to join your book club discussions or connect with you via video conference. Please reach out to me with any questions!
April 27, 2022
I love teaching, but for more than 20 years, I joked that I would love it more if I could focus on student growth instead of grades. And, now—all joking aside—I can.
Elizabeth Jorgensen has written a book that all educators and school administrators should read. She speaks from her experience as an English teacher while also incorporating anecdotes from other disciplines, showing how process based learning can yield success for all students.
Valuing the learning process, Jorgensen emphasizes the importance of creating life-long habits where students and teachers view mistakes as opportunities to improve. The teacher’s role becomes that of a facilitator, providing deliberate feedback during the process instead of evaluating an outcome.
Jorgensen’s tips empower teachers and students to focus on skill-building and enjoy each step of the learning process together, valuing growth instead of grades.
Elizabeth Jorgensen has written a book that all educators and school administrators should read. She speaks from her experience as an English teacher while also incorporating anecdotes from other disciplines, showing how process based learning can yield success for all students.
Valuing the learning process, Jorgensen emphasizes the importance of creating life-long habits where students and teachers view mistakes as opportunities to improve. The teacher’s role becomes that of a facilitator, providing deliberate feedback during the process instead of evaluating an outcome.
Jorgensen’s tips empower teachers and students to focus on skill-building and enjoy each step of the learning process together, valuing growth instead of grades.
August 9, 2023
Ideas for focusing on learning
The book provides insight into how to change the narrative about learning in the classroom. It is a focus on thinking and process, not a focus on knowing for the test.
The book provides insight into how to change the narrative about learning in the classroom. It is a focus on thinking and process, not a focus on knowing for the test.
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April 27, 2022As a 15-year Teacher myself, I see students exhibit three behaviors in my classroom every day:
1. Chase outcomes
2. Fear Failure
3. Fear Judgment
By the time students get to high school, they have practiced the aforementioned so often they struggle to approach the space in any other way. Needless to say, these behaviors do not lead to significant learning.
This book is a quick read that offers practical ideas on how to work with students to build environments that take the spotlight off outcomes like grades and standardized test scores. Can we help students focus more on the 1000s of choices they are making every day instead of their g.p.a? Yes we can. Can we help students understand that mistakes and failure and necessary for learning? Yes we can.
Jorgensen's book explores practical ways to facilitate significant learning by building practices around the process rather than outcomes. What I appreciate most is I can bounce around this short read based on my needs. I can explore both concepts and examples of the concepts in action. Great book to use for staff discussions.
1. Chase outcomes
2. Fear Failure
3. Fear Judgment
By the time students get to high school, they have practiced the aforementioned so often they struggle to approach the space in any other way. Needless to say, these behaviors do not lead to significant learning.
This book is a quick read that offers practical ideas on how to work with students to build environments that take the spotlight off outcomes like grades and standardized test scores. Can we help students focus more on the 1000s of choices they are making every day instead of their g.p.a? Yes we can. Can we help students understand that mistakes and failure and necessary for learning? Yes we can.
Jorgensen's book explores practical ways to facilitate significant learning by building practices around the process rather than outcomes. What I appreciate most is I can bounce around this short read based on my needs. I can explore both concepts and examples of the concepts in action. Great book to use for staff discussions.
April 27, 2022
Anyone working with students can benefit from this text: teachers, of course, but also school administrators, parents, advisors, and coaches. Hacking Student Learning Habits helps us help students to build healthy habits for learning and to focus on utilizing the compounding nature of imperfect practice to see performance gains.
April 27, 2022
This is a quick and practical read. No matter what subject you can teach, you'll gain ideas for how to engage students in a daily performance environment and to shift your focus away from grades and onto learning and improving.
August 10, 2022
When I encounter literature in my profession, I struggle to find texts that offer immediate, practical solutions to real obstacles I face as an educator. Often, I am left with great ideas or a new mindset, but struggle in actually adopting these. This book was refreshingly different!
'Hack' is the perfect word in the title, and I indeed "read it today and fixed it tomorrow," as the book cover suggests.
I have already adopted process-based assessment in my high school classroom, but now I have even more tools to help my students embrace and find joy in the process of learning that I can't wait to try for the new school year, starting with "relinquishing [more] control" and getting students to own their own process, which will be difficult, but doable now that I can see the concrete steps Jorgensen lays out to implement this goal.
I highly recommend to teachers of all ages and content areas—or to anyone who works with learners of any kind in any capacity, for that matter. Schools and students need this change, and it is time we as educators keep up.
'Hack' is the perfect word in the title, and I indeed "read it today and fixed it tomorrow," as the book cover suggests.
I have already adopted process-based assessment in my high school classroom, but now I have even more tools to help my students embrace and find joy in the process of learning that I can't wait to try for the new school year, starting with "relinquishing [more] control" and getting students to own their own process, which will be difficult, but doable now that I can see the concrete steps Jorgensen lays out to implement this goal.
I highly recommend to teachers of all ages and content areas—or to anyone who works with learners of any kind in any capacity, for that matter. Schools and students need this change, and it is time we as educators keep up.
July 10, 2022
This book offered great tips; some of which I’ve already been using, and some of which were new to me ideas. As a non-classroom educator, I don’t deal with grading myself. However, the book made a compelling argument for why districts should eliminate the focus on achievement based outcomes, and instead focus on the process of learning. This book also detailed ways for individual teachers to still conform to necessary grading standards while moving their classroom toward process based learning. I most appreciated about the book how it provided takeaways to implement immediately within the classroom/intervention groups. The author gave several tips to help build the enthusiasm of learning for resistive learners, which I could picture many students who receive special education services while I was reading. The author provided many examples across academic areas. This book even inspired me to improve my process of writing!
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