04135nam 2200721Ia 450 991080832560332120230725050911.0979-82-16-01795-01-283-21407-597866132140720-313-39154-810.5040/9798216017950(CKB)2550000000043529(EBL)740766(OCoLC)749264243(SSID)ssj0000541511(PQKBManifestationID)12206360(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541511(PQKBWorkID)10498940(PQKB)10500526(Au-PeEL)EBL740766(CaPaEBR)ebr10491774(CaONFJC)MIL321407(MiAaPQ)EBC740766(OCoLC)1395568157(UkLoBP)BP9798216017950BC(EXLCZ)99255000000004352920230825e20182023 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSpotlighting the strengths of every single student why U.S. schools need a new, strengths-based approach /Elsie Jones-Smith1st ed.Westport, CT :Greenwood,2018.London :Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),2023.1 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-313-39153-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 IndexThis 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.EducationAcademic achievementMultiple intelligencesSchool improvement programsIndividualized instructionEducational psychologybicsscEducation.Academic achievement.Multiple intelligences.School improvement programs.Individualized instruction.Educational psychology371.39/4Jones-Smith Elsie1629289UkLoBPUkLoBPBOOK9910808325603321Spotlighting the strengths of every single student3966938UNINA