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Your Students Want to Master What You’re Teaching Them

October 6, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 6 Comments

Students want to be good at things because it is fun being good at things. In other words, they are motivated by being good at, or mastering, things. Daniel Pink’s Drive, perhaps the most influential book on motivation of the past decade, is the most famous affirmation of this truth. Pink boils motivation down to three […]

Submit an Idea for Cultivating Character; Win a $10,000 Grant

October 3, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

In case you haven’t heard, Character Lab is now accepting proposals for a new year of the Teacher Innovation Grant (TIG). You can learn more about TIG here, or just read these bulleted highlights: What you need to provide prior to the 11/2/15 deadline: an idea for developing one or more character strengths in your classroom; […]

21 Ideas for Developing the Motivational Character Strengths

September 29, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 4 Comments

In “The Character Strengths and Motivation,” I laid out the 4.5 character strengths that I consider motivational in nature, and, at the end of the post, I laid out an example of the kind of “self-experimentation” we can use to learn how to teach our students to develop the “motivational strengths” in themselves (because marshaling one’s […]

Teachers, Students, and Sleep

September 26, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

Lately, I’ve been writing about motivation (here and here) because, it being the start of the school year, I am dying to know how to help my students (nearly all of whom start the year wanting to do well) persist in motivating themselves to do the year’s work and achieve a year’s worth (or more) […]

Helping Students Understand Motivation: The Character Strengths Angle

September 22, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 3 Comments

This past Tuesday, I ended “Truths about Student Motivation” with a question: what are the tools and strategies that can equip our students to muster up the motivation required to get them from where they are to where they aspire to be? This is constantly in my mind during these first weeks of school; I’ve […]

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