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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elsie Jones-SmithPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.624kg ISBN: 9780313391538ISBN 10: 031339153 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 03 August 2011 Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationElsie Jones-Smith, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with doctoral degrees in clinical psychology and counselor education. She is counselor educator and president of the Strengths-Based Institute, which provides consultation to organizations dealing with substance-abusing youths and with youths experiencing difficulties in school and with violence. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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