
Teaching with a Strength-Based Approach
How to Motivate Students and Build Relationships
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Teaching with a Strength-Based Approach
How to Motivate Students and Build Relationships
About this book
Helping students improve doesn't have to mean remediating their deficits. In this important book, Steven Baron shows the benefits of a strength-based approach that instead emphasizes students' assets and capabilities, making them feel more connected to teachers and peers and more engaged in learning.
You'll learn practical, research-backed ways to help students of all grade levels identify and celebrate their strengths, develop self-confidence and a growth mindset, build intrinsic motivation, overcome a fear of making mistakes, manage their feelings, focus on gratitude, and more. You'll also discover ways to create a more strength-based Individual Education Plan (IEP), increase your own resilience as a teacher, and build a strength-based culture throughout your school and district.
The appendix provides a variety of exercises you can use to help students focus on their strengths, foster kindness, and understand the impact of bullying. Students spend approximately 1300 hours during the year with teachers; this resource will help you make this time as affirming as possible so students are ready to learn and grow.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Unique Problems Do Teachers Face?
- 2 What Is the Impact of Teacher-Student Relationships on School Life?
- 3 What Is the Strength-Based Model?
- 4 How to Apply the Strength-Based Model in the Classroom
- 5 Additional Strength-Based Interventions for the Classroom
- 6 How To Become a Strength-Based Teacher
- 7 Implications for the Future: Where Do We Go from Here?
- A Final Thought
- Appendix 1: Class Bullying Exercise
- Appendix 2: First Day Exercise
- Appendix 3: How to Be a Good Friend Exercise
- Appendix 4: A Strength-Based Questionnaire
- Appendix 5: Show and Tell of Strengths
- Appendix 6: Strength-Based Letter Writing
- Appendix 7: Kindness Activity
- Appendix 8: The Talk Show