How to Dig Deeper Into Students Strengths
What questions can we present to students to have a better overall understanding of who they are and how they experience the world?
In this article, Tyrone C. Howard explores questions to ask students to better understand their strengths and life experiences.
Learning Outcomes
Help students understand each other better
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As educators, we help students recognize their strengths, both within and outside of the classroom, and use that knowledge as the foundation for further learning and growth. Gloria Ladson-Billings describes this as culturally responsive work “that not only addresses student achievement but also helps students to accept and affirm their cultural identity while developing critical perspectives that challenge inequities that schools (and other institutions) perpetuate” (1995). When we look…
