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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jones-Smith, Elsie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Subjects:
Individualized instruction.
School improvement programs.
Multiple intelligences.
Academic achievement.
Educational change.
Enseignement individualisé.
Enseignement > Réforme.
Intelligences multiples.
Educational change
Academic achievement
Individualized instruction
Multiple intelligences
School improvement programs
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; 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 Strengths10: Creating and Communicating a Strengths-Based School Vision: Getting Involved; Notes; Index.

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