In The Will to Learn: How to Cultivate Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own, I lay out an approach to student motivation in which Five Key Beliefs can be influenced using just ten basic strategies. The tenth of those strategies is Normalize Struggle. What is it? When students aren’t sure that they belong in your class as […]
The Belonging Belief – DSJR Student Motivation Guide
The Belonging belief forms the fourth and final layer of the Five Key Beliefs of student motivation, which I unpack at length in The Will to Learn: How to Cultivate Student Motivation without Losing Your Own and in Chapter Two of These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most. What is […]
Unpack Outcomes – DSJR Student Motivation Guide
In The Will to Learn: How to Cultivate Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own, I lay out an approach to student motivation in which Five Key Beliefs can be influenced using just ten basic strategies. The ninth of those strategies is Unpack Outcomes, Good or Bad. What is it? The main goal of this strategy is helping […]
Define Success – DSJR Student Motivation Guide
In The Will to Learn: How to Cultivate Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own, I lay out an approach to student motivation in which Five Key Beliefs can be influenced using just ten basic strategies. The eighth of those strategies is Define Success: Wisely, Early, Often. What is it? Like all of The Will to Learn strategies, […]
Woodenization – DSJR Student Motivation Guide
In The Will to Learn: How to Cultivate Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own, I lay out an approach to student motivation in which Five Key Beliefs can be influenced using just ten basic strategies. The seventh of those strategies is Woodenization. What is it? Let’s go in to a bit more depth on this. First, Woodenization […]