Helping students improve doesn't have to mean remediating their deficits. In this important book, Steven Baron shows the benefits of a strength-based approach that instead emphasizes students' assets and capabilities, making them feel more connected to teachers and peers and more engaged in learning. You'll learn practical, research-backed ways to help students of all grade levels identify and celebrate their strengths, develop self-confidence and a growth mindset, build intrinsic motivation, overcome a fear of making mistakes, manage their feelings, focus on gratitude, and more. You'll also discover ways to create a more strength-based Individual Education Plan (IEP), increase your own resilience as a teacher, and build a strength-based culture throughout your school and district. The appendix provides a variety of exercises you can use to help students focus on their strengths, foster kindness, and understand the impact of bullying. Students spend approximately 1300 hours during the year with teachers; this resource will help you make this time as affirming as possible so students are ready to learn and grow.

. Join Stephen Baron as he shares his true life story involving 20 years battling this mysterious disease, and how he made the impossible possible when challenged by both the psychological and physical obstacles connected with a chronic ailment. From the seat of a wheelchair, see MS through the author's eyes--that there is joy and hope for everyone, even the terminally ill. Stephen is a shining example that happiness can be achieved through life's gravest downfalls, and has opened a new door of optimism and renewed strength to guide others through their trials and tribulations. Find contentment within Baron's experiences, and realize that love truly materializes in our bleakest hours.

Helping students improve doesn't have to mean remediating their deficits. In this important book, Steven Baron shows the benefits of a strength-based approach that instead emphasizes students' assets and capabilities, making them feel more connected to teachers and peers and more engaged in learning. You'll learn practical, research-backed ways to help students of all grade levels identify and celebrate their strengths, develop self-confidence and a growth mindset, build intrinsic motivation, overcome a fear of making mistakes, manage their feelings, focus on gratitude, and more. You'll also discover ways to create a more strength-based Individual Education Plan (IEP), increase your own resilience as a teacher, and build a strength-based culture throughout your school and district. The appendix provides a variety of exercises you can use to help students focus on their strengths, foster kindness, and understand the impact of bullying. Students spend approximately 1300 hours during the year with teachers; this resource will help you make this time as affirming as possible so students are ready to learn and grow.

There is a growing concern about the social exclusion of a range of minority groups, including people with learning difficulties. Lifelong learning is seen as one of the central means of challenging the exclusion of this group, but also of enhancing their economic status. This book demonstrates that policy based on human capital premises has produced forms of lifelong learning which exacerbate the marginalisation of people with learning difficulties. The Learning Society and people with learning difficulties: reviews the range of policy fields which increasingly intervene in the lifelong learning arena; maps the agencies involved in service delivery and describes their (sometimes conflicting) ethos; provides in-depth accounts of the lived experiences of individuals with learning difficulties as they navigate lifelong learning options. Its exploration of the links between community care, education, training, employment, housing and benefits policies in the context of lifelong learning is unique. This book makes a significant contribution to debates about how people with learning difficulties may achieve social inclusion, and the part which lifelong learning may play in this. It is therefore invaluable reading for policy makers, practitioners and academics interested in these issues.

The idea of 'social capital' is increasingly influencing international, national and local policy making and work across the social sciences. This book provides an overview of 'social capital' together with critical discussion of its application in a wide variety of fields.

The idea of social capital is increasingly prominent in international, national and local policy making and in the the social sciences. This book provides an overview of social capital together with critical discussion of its application in a wide variety of fields.

. Join Stephen Baron as he shares his true life story involving 20 years battling this mysterious disease, and how he made the impossible possible when challenged by both the psychological and physical obstacles connected with a chronic ailment. From the seat of a wheelchair, see MS through the author's eyes--that there is joy and hope for everyone, even the terminally ill. Stephen is a shining example that happiness can be achieved through life's gravest downfalls, and has opened a new door of optimism and renewed strength to guide others through their trials and tribulations. Find contentment within Baron's experiences, and realize that love truly materializes in our bleakest hours.