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Unlocking student potential : how do I identify and activate student strengths? / Yvette Jackson, Veronica McDermott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Yvette.
- Series:
- ASCD arias
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Learning ability--Identification.
- Learning ability.
- Motivation in education.
- Genre:
- Field guides.
- Physical Description:
- 58 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Alexandria, Virginia : ASCD, [2015]
- Summary:
- How do I identify and activate student strengths? What if your next faculty meeting began with this question: What are the strengths of our underachieving students? When teachers recognize and focus on student strengths, they transform the learning environment into one of positivity and potential. Students begin to believe in themselves as capable, valued, and respected and show more willingness to invest and engage in school. They perform better. They crave and enjoy academic challenge, and they delight in outdoing themselves. Focusing on strengths is a no-cost, highly effective, nontroditional way of addressing persistent underachievement. Drawing on authors Yvette Jackson and Veronica McDermott's experiences supporting the transformations of schools repeatedly labeled as underachieving, this book offers concrete ways to identify student strengths and then build on them in your classroom or school throughout the year. These field-tested strategies will help awaken students' belief in their own potential and put them on the path to lasting success. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Starting from strengths
- Why shine the spotlight on strengths?
- What science says about identifying and activating strengths
- What are strengths and how do they work?
- "Gifting" all students with an emphasis on strengths
- Starting the year off by identifying strengths
- Identifying and activating strengths throughout the year
- Mediating learning to develop academic strengths
- Encore.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1416621156
- 9781416621157
- OCLC:
- 913470031
- Publisher Number:
- 99964871308
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