 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | Now, Discover Your Strengths introduced millions of Americans to the unique, personal strengths that they could use to succeed in life. Teach with Your Strengths expands upon the best-selling Now, Discover Your Strengths and shows how anyone who teaches — from classroom instructors to coaches to business executives — can get the most from their students. Focusing on the central insight that all great teachers make the most of their natural talents, Teach with Your Strengths shows teachers how to avoid the pitfalls that lead to mediocrity and work best with what they have. The book is written by two teachers with a combined 70 years of classroom and consulting experience, and it includes real-life examples of how great teachers use their strengths to solve problems, battle bureaucracy, and reach all of their students. For anyone who has ever wanted to be a better teacher, Teach with Your Strengths offers proven techniques to help readers get the results they want. |
Average Customer Rating:   If you buy this used, you probably won't be able to access strengthsfinders website to evaluate your own personal strengths. I haven't even started the book and wanted to begin with checking out my strenghts but the insert with the code (good for only one user) wasn't included in this book. Now I feel cheated. I'll have to buy the book new to get the code and evaluate my strengths. A Bunch of Hooey Do not bother to waste your money on this book!
The book claims to help an individual learn to "teach with his or her strengths." However, the book really shills the highly questionable "TeacherInsight" assessment from Gallup which may be a contributor to the significantly high rate of teacher turnover that school districts are experiencing. Save your money. The book and the assessment are not just questionable but may be harmful to your intellectual health!
What is "TeacherInsight"? Applying for a teaching job at a large suburban school district after years of highly successful teaching at another district, I was directed to take an online assessment entitled "TeacherInsight." Having also been an executive of an assessment company years before and being well versed in psychometrics as well as also having directed the assessment company's online initiative, I was dismayed at not only how poorly "TeacherInsight" is constructed but at the poor quality of its implementation online.
Later I researched the assessment and realized that contrary to the theory on which talent assessments are based, "TeacherInsight" is not a tool for prospective teachers to determine if they possess the interest, workstyle, and capabilities for a particular job; but it is a tool to winnow out prospective job candidates. Assessments, such as "TeacherInsight," are developed, based on interviews with individuals considered exemplary in a particular field. The theory is that using this profile can help people determine if they are a good fit for that particular job. In others words, what is the likelihood that they will not only succeed but thrive and gain enjoyment and fulfillment.
Too often these tests, such as "TeacherInsight," are now used as gatekeepers by HR personnel and others given the responsibility for hiring and advancing people. The tragic aspect of this is that, at least with "TeacherInsight," there is no solid data that the teachers hired based on a score on this test are superior to those who were never considered. The result is that many dedicated and highly effective teachers are never considered for a position.
With the extremely high turnover in teachers who remain less than five years in the profession and the extreme cost associated with teacher turnover ($6,000 per lost teacher in a small district and upwards to $25,000 per teacher in a large district), relying on such assessments as "TeacherInsight" may make the screening process easier, but in the long run not only more expensive in teacher turnover but also in lower student achievement.
School districts using "TeacherInsight" are remiss if they do not demand that Gallup, the company that developed and markets "TeacherInsight," permit a comprehensive evaluation of the assessment by a reputable third party research company in order to document the validity, reliability, and impact of "TeacherInsight."
In the meantime, purchasing this book only validates the theory and puts money into the pocket of those how help perpetrate this folly.
Teach your strengths didn't come with the test~already used test code so not much good to my daughter .. Teach with your streagnths It had some pretty good information, nothing that will alter the course of your teaching practices. Amazon's deceptive practices taint excellent supplier effort Product from supplier was fine and condition was as promised. I paid for 1 day delivery from Amazon; AMAZON DOES NOT MEAN 1 day as in 'overnight'. BUYERS BEWARE- EVEN IF "IN STOCK," the '1 day' term only means it is in somebody's warehouse somewhere in the US - not necessarily their's. So '1 day' means AFTER whenever it gets to wherever AMAZON starts counting from. You have no idea how mnay days it will take for it to get from Egypt to Amazon's ware house, but in the meantime, they have your top dollar "1-day delivery' money, so do they care? So you pay LOTS of money for NOTHING that will help speed up the time of your delivery. For a real giggle, click the customer service button. Good heavens. Not the type of Amazon experience I am used to!! |  |
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