Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better

I devoured Practice Perfect. This is an excellent book for anyone learning a new skill or teaching others a new skill. The authors have done a great job in taking their own experience training teachers and teasing out principles of practice relevant for learning in general. If you believe learning requires practice, iteration, and feedback, this book illuminates the guts of the process - with detailed tactics and examples on how to do it well.

I will be implementing the lessons learned here in work and life. Looking forward to the next title from this team!

Strong book, filled with content on how to improve practice techniques. I selected this book because of my passion and enjoyment for the Talent Code, Talent is Overrated, and Bounce. The book has a strong emphasis on how to effectively practice and improve teaching skills. Enjoyed the book very much.

Quick take ways on how to improve your practice: quick feedback, videotape, break the skill down into different parts, give these parts names, make every minute count, make it fun, more drills less scrimmage.

In addition to giving the reader "42 rules for getting better at getting better", Practice Perfect helps us practice "smarter". The concept of "Practice the 20", where one practices the 20 per cent of things that are the most important, is huge because it focuses attention on what counts instead of the other 80% that wastes so much of our time. My golf should benefit because at my age I only need to practice chipping and putting!

I could have also used the business applications of Practice Perfect 40 years ago. Back then, no one practiced sales presentations for fear of looking foolish in front of one's colleagues. But what Practice Perfect shows is that we missed something valuable - "the gift of feedback." What a loss. But the good news from this book is that it is never too late to learn, provided we practice focusing on the solutions instead of the problems.

An excellent companion to Daniel Coyle's "Talent Code" and William Baumeister's "Willpower". If you teach, coach, instruct, or in any way develop or train other people this is a must have book for your path to getting better at getting better. I have used this book for professional development in my military unit I command and we have put into practice several of the "42 Rules". In running our competitive marksmanship team we especially use the "chunking" rule and the "practice until you cant get it wrong" and the 80/20 rule of perfecting strengths before trying to perfect weaknesses.

One of the top reviews claims this is just for educators. I don't get it as this is full of non-educational examples. But also let's face it, this is a book about learning how to get better. It is ultimately about education applied to life. As I tell my kids, everyone in life needs to be a manager and a teacher whether they like the job or not, even if they are just managing their own lives and teaching themselves. I began applying principles from this book almost immediately after starting it in everything from my basketball game to how I teach my kids.

As you will learn from the book, just reading it won't do a thing for you. You will have to practice the rules for yourself. But if you do, I think you will be richly rewarded.

If I'm being honest, this book just isn't for me. I had to purchase this book for a college class. The message is so heavily supported by sports examples and I just don't care about sports at all so it was hard to get through. I get what the author is trying to say, but the message kind of gets lost in all the sports examples. I'm definitely not the intended audience for this book.

Thought-provoking, if occasionally a little rigid in its thinking. More applicable to designing and implementing practice for improvement of teachers' skills than for teachers to apply in the classroom with their students, though there are elements that could translate to the latter as well

One of the best books I have read on the art of practice! It is full of practical ideas that will help you improve personally or professionally. If you teach, you need this book. If you coach or teach the arts, this book will reinforce what you are already doing and give you new tools to work with your students. After reading this book, I bought Doug Lemov's "Teach Like a Champion", which is also very good.

Uno de los pilares del éxito es hacer las cosas muy bien! Este libro te enseña cómo puedes hacer para pasar de bueno a ser el mejor en lo que te propongas!

In every group awareness, attention, involvement are central to the success of the group.

In these and more aspects I found valuable information.

This was a great follow-on read from Matthew Sayed's "Bounce". Central to the book is the idea that although practice is vital in mastering a skill, it is not enough. It has to be designed properly, with a clear objective, immediate feedback and assessment of its effectiveness. Skills need to be isolated, practised and then integrated and practised again with other skills. Lemov defines his terms with helpful precision, and also encourages the reader to give names to the different types of practice activities they use. His business is school leadership and teacher training, but I found many of the "Rules" very relevant to my own field of foreign language teaching, and could also imagine it being helpful for those involved in sport, music, mathematics, or indeed business. The spelling of the verb "to practice" is correct in US spelling, and I got used to it, though no doubt it will provoke the usual outrage among certain UK readers! I found the book such worthwhile reading that I decided to put away my remaining prejudices and read his slightly nauseatingly titled "Teach like a Champion", which is equally inspiring for those who want evidence-based teaching techniques which will work for anyone.

A must for everyone interested in working in a team and developing a culture of growth and camaraderie. Great research and presentation.

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