The Effort and Efficacy beliefs form the third 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 are […]
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Teacher Credibility – DSJR Student Motivation Guide
Teacher Credibility is the first 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 Teacher Credibility? Teacher Credibility […]
The Five Key Beliefs Beneath Student Motivation – DSJR Guide
In my book These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most (2018), I introduced the Five Key Beliefs as a methodology for analyzing and doing something about student motivation problems. Due to the need to treat more than just the Five Key Beliefs in the book (after all, they are just […]
This School Year, Try the Minimalist Approach to the Student Motivation
Since The Will to Learn came out, I’ve worked with dozens of faculties and teacher groups on the material and continued to practice its ideas and strategies in my own classroom. What I’ve found is that even the short list of ten strategies I write about can be pretty overwhelming. It’s too much to focus […]
2023-2024 School Year in Review
Dear colleague, This was a school year of refinding my footing and figuring out what I’m here for, as a husband, dad, teacher, and writer. I’ll spare you the inner journey with all its trials and tribulations, but suffice it to say that I am grateful for the inner work my life required this year […]