Your Childs Strengths : Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them

English

ISBN: 0670018767

EAN: 9780670018765

Category: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General/Psychology / Developmental / Child/Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General/Education / Parent Participation/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 02/01/2008

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: An essential book for parents and teachers that explores how children?s individual strengths create success With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in this country. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and fixing? kids? weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox?s twenty-five years of experience, Your Child?s Strengthsturns that flawed paradigm on its head. Fox?s strengths-based philosophy provides the tools to prepare kids for the future in a world that demands greater adaptability and creative thinking than ever before. Your Child?s Strengthswill give parents and teachers the tools to discover strengths in three main areas: Activity Strengths, the tasks that make you feel engaged and energized; Relationship Strengths, the things you do for and with others that make you feel valued and competent; and Learning Strengths, the unique ways we approachand understand new information. All three strengths work in tandem. Pairing inspiring firsthand accounts of success with practical workbook tools and an outline of the award- winning Affinities Program Fox has implemented at her own school, this much- needed book is a user- friendly guide for parents, teachers, and administrators that will improve individual performance and an indispensable road map for young people and society to a future that plays to strengths.

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Your Childs Strengths : Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.2 inches

Width: 6.3 inches

Length: 9.3 inches

Weight: 19.08 oz

Pages: 368