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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 […]

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 […]

An Exemplary Exercise for Building Goal-Keeping Kids (includes Downloadable Document)

August 31, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

In “The Kind of Science that Teaching Needs,” I shared an “experiment” I whipped up last year to help my students set and stay committed to their goals. If you read that article, you’ll know that I have to put “experiment” in quotation marks because it was missing a few important pieces of experimentation (like, you know, […]

An Example of Deliberate Practice from my Actual Life

April 18, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 8 Comments

One of the best reasons for infusing character strengths into our instruction is totally selfish: even if we completely fail to help our students grow character, our lives become richer as we grow the strengths in ourselves. And yet, this personal character growth is not truly selfish, either — not if our aim is to help our […]

The Imperative Nature of Deliberate Practice

April 14, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 17 Comments

So, guys. Guess what? My pop-up debate Teacher Innovator project was one of seven winners of the prize! It won! And that’s because of you. I don’t know what I’m more excited about: the fact that hundreds of you believed in the project enough to vote for it; the fact that this summer I’ll fly to […]

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