Spotlighting the Strengths of Every Single Student - Why U.S. Schools Need a New, Strengths-Based Approach (Hardcover)

This book explains how a teaching system focused on identifying and stoking each student's strengths-rather than concentrating on deficits-can bring remarkable academic improvement and achievement. It's a familiar and seemingly logical model: to improve performance, identify weaknesses and target these problem areas. Could doing the opposite be a better way? Licensed clinical psychologist Elsie Jones-Smith argues that strengths-based systems are indeed more effective-not just in social work, where the philosophy became popular; or in the business world, where the concept is increasingly being embraced-but in the academic setting as well. Spotlighting the Strengths of Every Single Student: Why U.S. Schools Need a New, Strengths-Based Approach explains how and why a system that focuses on students' strengths enables kids to be self-confident, goal-directed, and to possess a stronger sense of self-efficacy, self-control, and academic achievement. Jones-Smith also explains how such a system spurs appreciation and advancement of multiple intelligences, which in turn gives students the ability to address weaknesses-on their own. Another plus: this approach has also been shown to generally reduce school disciplinary actions and increase class attendance time. Contains 25 teaching strategies that are part of the strength-based program Offers powerful vignettes to illustrate key points

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2011
First published:	August 2011
Authors:	Elsie Jones-Smith
Dimensions:	168 x 256 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	285
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-39153-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology
LSN:	0-313-39153-X
Barcode:	9780313391538

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