What does the research in Strengths Based Education have to tell us?
What are the best ways to give students encouragement?
Learn FROM
(deep listening, information)
Would you consider yourself a teacher who begins by focusing on student’s strengths? Do the systems and procedural expectations in your school district support a “strengths based” approach?
Recall and share a time when a student in your classroom received a great deal of encouragement.
Recall and share a time when you received a great deal of encouragement as a student.
Would you say the educators in your school or district receive a healthy amount of encouragement? Is your school or district “strengths based” when it comes to its support of teachers?