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Spotlighting the strengths of every single student [[electronic resource] ] : why U.S. schools need a new, strengths-based approach / / Elsie Jones-Smith



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Autore: Jones-Smith Elsie Visualizza persona
Titolo: Spotlighting the strengths of every single student [[electronic resource] ] : why U.S. schools need a new, strengths-based approach / / Elsie Jones-Smith Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Westport, CT : , : Greenwood, , 2018
London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2023
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
Disciplina: 371.39/4
Soggetto topico: Education
Academic achievement
Multiple intelligences
School improvement programs
Individualized instruction
Educational psychology
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Spotlighting the strengths of every single student  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-82-16-01795-0
1-283-21407-5
9786613214072
0-313-39154-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781674403321
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