A Strengths-Based Approach

Kevin Locke

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. What does the research in Strengths Based Education have to tell us?
  2. What are the best ways to give students encouragement?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, information)

  1. 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?
  2. Recall and share a time when a student in your classroom received a great deal of encouragement.
  3. Recall and share a time when you received a great deal of encouragement as a student.
  4. 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?