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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.
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Emergence, Growth, and Current Uses of Strengths-Based Educational Systems
2 The Strengths Mindset: Understanding the Nature of Strengths
3 Brain Development, Emotion, and Learning
4 The Strengths-Based School's Component 1: A Strengths-Building Pyramid
5 Component 2: Improving Instruction—The Academic Curriculum
6 Component 3: Caring and Empathic Classrooms
7 Component 4: Preventing Failure
8 Component 5: Increasing Home, School, and Community Partnerships
9 Assuring Teachers Understand Their Own Strengths
10 Creating and Communicating a Strengths-Based School Vision: Getting Involved
Notes
Index
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