Mary Beth Hewitt

The Importance of Taking a Strength-Based Perspective

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Mary Beth Hewitt, Mary Beth Hewitt

Why are some people successful with students although others have given up on them? This author believes it is because they have a strength-based focus and an optimistic perspective. These educators move "out of the problem and into the solution" by exhibiting eight behaviors of strength-based teachers.

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