Teach With Your Strengths: How Great Teachers Inspire Their Students

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Now, Discover Your Strengthsintroduced millions of Americans to the unique, personal strengths that they could use to succeed in life.Teach with Your Strengthsexpands upon the best-sellingNow, Discover Your Strengthsand 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 Strengthsshows 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 Strengthsoffers proven techniques to help readers get the results they want.

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Rosanne Liesveld, who began her career as a teacher three decades ago, has spent the past 20 years consulting with leaders of hundreds of schools all across the U.S. Liesveld played a key role in developing TeacherInsight, The Gallup Organization's online talent assessment for educators. She is now the Managing Partner of Gallups Education Division. Liesveld received a master's degree in adult education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

A member of the School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee, for almost 50 years, Jo Ann Miller, who has more than four decades of experience in education, has spent the past 30 years consulting with and training educators in the United States and Canada. Through her seminar leadership, Miller has trained thousands of school leaders in the strengths-based approach to teacher and principal selection and development. She is a Senior Seminar Leader and Engagement Manager for The Gallup Organizations Education Division, and received her masters degree in history from Loyola University in Chicago.