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Spotlighting the Strengths of Every Single Student
Elsie Jones-Smith
其他書名
Why U.S. Schools Need a New, Strengths-Based Approach
出版Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011-08-03
主題Education / Educational Policy & Reform / GeneralEducation / LeadershipEducation / Administration / GeneralEducation / Educational Psychology
ISBN03133915489780313391545
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ulHeEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.