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Your Child's Strengths and the Affinities Program
Your Child's
Strengths, Discover Them, Develop Them, Use
Them, by Jenifer Fox, M-Ed. (Viking,
2008)
Every
action or behavior provides an opportunity to
discover a child's unique set of strengths. Yet
America's schools focus almost exclusively on
remediating weakness. Fox shows you how to
identify your child's strengths based on their
actions, how to encourage those strengths once
you've identified them, and how to help kids
implement the strengths they
reveal.
With this groundbreaking work, Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in this country. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing kids" weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox's twenty-five years of experience, Your Child's Strengths turns that flawed paradigm on its head. Fox's strengths-based philosophy provides the tools to prepare kids for the future in a world that demands greater adaptability and creative thinking than ever before.
The Affinities Program
The Affinities Program was first conceived and implemented in 2003 at the Purnell School, a girl's boarding school in Pottersville, New Jersey, making the school America's first explicitly strengths-based high school.
When you read the curriculum, you will see that it guides children toward strengths discovery through hands-on, interactive assignments. The curriculum touches on a wide variety of topics organized as a teen's personal journey toward the future. This is accomplished using interactive games, group activities, films, books, field trips, technology, and presentations. The strengths approach presented here prepares children to:
With this groundbreaking work, Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in this country. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing kids" weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox's twenty-five years of experience, Your Child's Strengths turns that flawed paradigm on its head. Fox's strengths-based philosophy provides the tools to prepare kids for the future in a world that demands greater adaptability and creative thinking than ever before.
The Affinities Program
The Affinities Program was first conceived and implemented in 2003 at the Purnell School, a girl's boarding school in Pottersville, New Jersey, making the school America's first explicitly strengths-based high school.
When you read the curriculum, you will see that it guides children toward strengths discovery through hands-on, interactive assignments. The curriculum touches on a wide variety of topics organized as a teen's personal journey toward the future. This is accomplished using interactive games, group activities, films, books, field trips, technology, and presentations. The strengths approach presented here prepares children to:
- understand a wide variety of ways they can be successful;
- feel passionate about work, given a wide spectrum of career choices:
- think about careers without focusing too narrowly on one kind of job or one topic;
- feel confident knowing what they love to do; and
- know what to look for in life, relationships, and work.