Imagine that you are in the middle of teaching one of your best lesson plans ever. Your classroom is buzzing with excitement for learning. The students are participating and engaged. You breathe a sigh of relief because you finally believe that what you have been repeating over and over is [...]
There is always a better way to make a decision than by tossing a coin. Good decision making always flows from good problem analysis. Good problem analysis will help your students make consistently good decisions when faced with important choices. In this post, we will review the eight-step approach for [...]
This Is Why Student Success Depends Upon Your Good Decision Making Skills
Imagine that one of your students comes into class upset about something. He walks in slowly with his head down, throws his backpack on the floor and slams his book on his desk. He lays his face down on his book and covers his head with his hands. There are [...]
Everyone spends much of their life seeking certain goals. The parts that drives people toward these goals is called the Goal Seeking Mechanism. This natural method of achievement is wasted when you aren’t clear about your goals. Clear goal-setting allows you to take advantage of your Goal Seeking Mechanism—it harnesses [...]
The word motivation comes from a Latin word meaning "to move". Do you ever wonder why some people achieve lofty goals? It is motivation, pure and simple. Once motivation has been created, commitment takes over to help realize the goal. Here are 3 components to teach your students about motivation: [...]
In addition to commitment regarding interpersonal relationships, you should teach your students to develop project commitments. Project commitments are commitments that are made in relationship to an activity that needs to be completed. They're related to achieving a desired goal, like acing a test or raising one’s grades. Here are [...]
How your own assertion affects student success and achievement.
In order to teach commitment ethic to your students, you have to teach them to have commitment to themselves. But people often look elsewhere when trying to improve themselves. Self-help books, support groups and therapy sessions are held out as the path to personal improvement. Yet any reputable self-help provider [...]
Our society tends to encourage instant relationships with others. However, while forming relationships can seem to be easy, very few of them develop into long-lasting relationships. Interpersonal commitment is the ability to form durable and lasting relationships with others. Our mobile, fast-paced society has made it harder than ever to [...]