Elsie Jones-Smith

Spotlighting the Strengths of Every Single Student (eBook, PDF)

Why U.S. Schools Need a New, Strengths-Based Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313391545
• Artikelnr.: 37831886

Autorenporträt

Elsie Jones-Smith is Clinical Psychologist, Counselor Educator, and President of the Strength-Based Institute, which provides consultation to organizations dealing with youth suffering from problems including drug and alcohol addiction. She is a fellow of two divisions of the American Psychological Association, Society of Counseling Psychology and the division on Ethnic Minority Issues. She has been a professor at Temple University, Michigan State University, University of Buffalo, and Boston University. Jones-Smith has served on numerous editorial boards, including the Journal of Counseling Psychology, The Counseling Psychologist, and Counselor Education and Supervision. She served 18 years as an Education Consultant for violence-prevention in New York schools. She holds dual PhDs - in Clinical Psychology and Counselor Education - and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

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