“Starting with Their Strengths is the proper e-book on the correct time. . . . Lickey and Powers convey us again to developmental fact. They remind us of the way youngsters study, and draw at the paintings of masters previous and current together with Vygotsky, Paley, and the study on Reggio Emilia to invent a workable method of training teenagers within the twenty first century.”
—From the Foreword by means of Lesley Koplow, Director of the heart for Emotionally Responsive perform at financial institution road collage, writer ofUnsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal

This ebook presents a complete and sensible advisor to utilizing the undertaking method whilst instructing children with certain wishes. whereas concentrating on children’s person strengths, which come with their pursuits, intelligences, and detailed kinds of studying, this source demonstrates educating innovations that deal with a number of components of improvement. utilizing situations from their very own perform, the authors study the method of having access to children’s strengths to facilitate social, emotional, cognitive, and motor improvement, together with strategies and abilities. The authors offer instruments to figure out, manage, and plan with children’s strengths and reveal using documentation as an actual review of children’s talents and pursuits. lecturers will use this publication to create studying environments that increase studying for all children.

Book Features:

• Classroom vignettes that reveal the venture procedure in action.
• Examples of children’s paintings and pictures of projects.
• Approaches to either ascertain the assets of habit demanding situations and help confident behavior.
• Sample lesson plans that mirror children’s pursuits and developmental wishes.
• Forms for facts assortment, speaking with mom and dad, choosing sensory demanding situations, habit research, and more.
• A strength-based Individualized schooling Plan (IEP) consultant.

Deborah C. Lickey is venture Coordinator for the Virginia Paraprofessional Early adolescence undertaking, At Partnership for individuals with Disabilities, Virginia Commonwealth collage in Richmond. Denise J. Powers is the Early early life professional within the Circle Preschool application, a healing software of larger Richmond test for young ones and their caregivers.