Celebrating Strengths: Building Strengths-Based Schools: No. 2 (Strengthening the World Series) - Tapa blanda

A strengths-based school is one where the focus is primarily on strengths, not weaknesses, where teachers and pupils aim not to be 'OK,' but to excel. Celebrating Strengths combines the latest research from positive psychology with two ancient teaching methods, oral story telling and community celebration, to bring the concept of the strengths-based school to life. It helps teachers grow in confidence and creativity, and provides them with practical tools that will increase their own enjoyment of teaching and their pupils' enjoyment of learning. Celebrating Strengths does not 'teach' positive psychology as an additional subject, but weaves it into the existing curriculum and life of the school. It is based around Strengths Gym, a programme for helping adults and children identify and use their strengths inside and outside the classroom through a cycle of festivals and storytelling. The methods have been tried and tested during four years of work in primary schools in North Lincolnshire, UK. The principles that underpin it, however, are universal and will readily adapt to early years settings, as well as those involving older children and young adults, and will be of as much interest to parents and carers as they will be to teachers. Celebrating Strengths will help anyone to flourish and be at their best - adults and children alike.

"Celebrating Strengths is full of hands on wisdom and suggestions as to how teachers can adapt the wisdom of positive psychology for themselves and in the classroom... I would encourage every teacher, every parent and all concerned with education to read and practise it." From the Foreword by Anthony Seldon, Wellington College "If you would like to know some practical and easy to implement strategies on how to cherish the good things in your life, then this is the book for you. Whether you are an adult in education or any other field of work and whether you are a learner at school, college or university, there are a number of excellent strategies in this book to help you think about the strengths that you have and how you can use these in your everyday life for work, play and rest. There are so many strengths that we all have and that are easily missed if we stop paying attention to them. Jenny's book brings us back to the core of what being human is all about - a focus on using our strengths." Sima Patel, Educational Psychologist