• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Dave Stuart Jr.

Teaching Simplified.

  • ABOUT
  • BLOG
  • LATEST VIDEOS
  • COURSES
  • BOOKS
  • SPEAKING
  • RESOURCES
  • NEWSLETTER
  • Show Search
Hide Search

student motivation

Anti-Teacher Credibility: 10 Great Ways to Become Unbelievable (in a Bad Way)

August 13, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

Last time, I looked at teacher credibility and its four components. (Read that post here.) This time, I want to examine the same crucial topic from a negative angle. What are the ways in which we might lessen our students’ belief in our ability to help them succeed? How might we undermine their perceptions of Trust, […]

Teacher Credibility: If You Build It, They Will Learn (Here’s How)

August 9, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 1 Comment

We’ve all heard the hoo-yah speeches before, the feel-good stuff like, “Be a teacher your students believe in! Be someone they know can take them where they need to go! Make them know that you will make a positive difference in their life! If they believe, they can achieve!!!” Fantastically, however, this theme of the importance of having our kids […]

A Simple Activity for Teaching About Procrastination

July 23, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 6 Comments

My ninth graders tend to ride the struggle bus when it comes to procrastination. There are, of course, always the kids who make my jaw drop with their teachability on work habits — when I teach them how to apply bits of effort to their studies each day, these kids put it into practice and […]

Unicorns and Growth Mindset

June 25, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

Last spring, a student said to me, “Well, I’m just not a map person. I’m not good at maps.” And I responded, “Well, Adam, flying unicorns are real.” To which Adam replied, “Um… what?” Growth mindset isn’t just a cute idea The preponderance of evidence supporting the brain’s malleability and the human ability to learn […]

How to Do Hard Things

October 13, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 26 Comments

The problem with our classes, from a motivational standpoint, is they’ve been surpassed by video games. Video games, as I laid out in my argument last week, are great at making players want to spend the time/effort/frustration costs of mastery; my world history class, less so. The solution, however, isn’t to “gamify” my class; rather, it’s to teach our students, […]

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 9
  • Go to page 10
  • Go to page 11
  • Go to page 12
  • Go to Next Page »

Copyright © 2025 ·