Your Child's Strengths - Hardcover

Fox, Jenifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670018767 ISBN 13: 9780670018765

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2008

Synopsis

Challenging a common educational practice to identify and address student weaknesses for improved academic performance, a guide to strength-based teaching outlines a program for engaging and motivating children by building on their innate talents. 60,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

aBrilliant, innovative, enormously practical . . . this book could change the world.a
aEdward Hallowell, M.D., author of "Driven to Distraction"
aJenifer Fox has extraordinary insight into the minds of young people and an unshakable belief in their potential. . . . This is one program that the schools must have.a
aMarcus Buckingham, from the Foreword

"Brilliant, innovative, enormously practical . . . this book could change the world."
-Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of Driven to Distraction

"Jenifer Fox has extraordinary insight into the minds of young people and an unshakable belief in their potential. . . . This is one program that the schools must have."
-Marcus Buckingham, from the Foreword

About the Author:

Jenifer Fox, Med has worked in day and boarding schools, single sex and coed schools, as a teacher and administrator for twenty-five years. She is currently head of the Purnell School in Pottersville, New Jersey. She holds a BS in communications from the University of Wisconsin– Madison, an MA in English from Middlebury College, and an MEd in school administration from Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0670018767
• ISBN 13: 9780670018765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 342