Smart Strengths: A Parent-Teacher-Coach Guide to Building Character, Resilience, and Relationships in Youth by John M. Yeager, Sherri Fisher, David N. Shearon
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Overview: SMART Strengths is a proven, definitive research supported guide for athletic coaches, parents, and teachers to help them find new pathways to their most important goals of building character, resilience, and relationships in youth and their adult mentors, while patiently nurturing the change, one person at a time, until the community has become contagiously positive and productive.
It contains both science and stories of how teachers, coaches, and parents who have used the SMART Strengths approach have achieved greater personal success and well-being and have helped their students, players, and children to achieve greater well-being and more success. It provides specific, tested ways that the authors and other SMART Strengths pioneers have developed and proven in their own lives and their teaching, coaching, and parenting.
SMART Strengths is also a rich resource for groups working together – school faculty, or even an entire school system.
Genre: Non Fiction > Motivation & Self-Improvement > Mentoring & Coaching
Loaded with activities, resources, and real-life examples, SMART Strengths is the new gold standard in the field of positive education. The SMART model demonstrates how to change a school system, one person at a time, so that it is not only about bringing positive education to students; it is also about maximizing the strengths of the adults who interact with them in every environment that fosters character and achievement.
Positive Psychology in Education — Over the past two decades, a number of brilliant, dedicated researchers have turned their attention to our inner universe, and especially to the patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating that create human success. These researchers in the field now known as Positive Psychology have discovered some of the fundamental processes that enable human success, and they have further developed ways to help each of us better understand and adopt these patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating.
Schools today face unprecedented challenges. More of the same, even done more efficiently and effectively, will not meet the challenge. Schools are called to create human success at levels never before achieved. To meet this high and noble challenge, they will need the assistance of what Positive Psychology has discovered about strengths, resilience, and relationships.
Positive Education is the incorporation of the science of Positive Psychology into the life and work of schools. While it may sound daunting to educators to hear of something else that schools should be doing, further investigation suggests that Positive Education first benefi ts teachers personally and then benefi ts them again by making it easier to get students to engage with and persist in the work they need to master academic material. Finally, Positive Education inevitably works to create a school culture that supports the caring, trusting relationships that distinguish excellent schools from their poor and mediocre peers. This can help decrease the influence of stereotypically negative educators or “keepers of the nightmare”, a term coined by Terrence Deal, co-author of “Shaping School Culture”.
Educators and educational leaders hold the same sacred mission that teachers and wise elders have always held: to assist the next generation as they seek to learn the knowledge and skills they will need to achieve acceptance, respect, and success in shaping a good life in the world in which they live. To achieve these goals, today’s students will need intellectual resources superior to those of any generation that has ever lived. However, intellectual resources will not be enough; they will also need substantial resources of optimism, collaboration, creativity, emotional intelligence, motivation, and relational skills.
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