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Publication Date: 2005-Mar-22
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The Importance of Taking a Strength-Based Perspective
Hewitt, Mary Beth
Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, v14 n1 p23 Spr 2005
Why are some people successful with students although others have given up on them? This author believes it is because they have a strength-based focus and an optimistic perspective. These educators move "out of the problem and into the solution" by exhibiting eight behaviors of strength-based teachers.
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Teacher Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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