New Education Paradigm

As featured on The Today Show, Jenifer Fox believes that we should develop an education program entitled “Every Child Moves Forward” instead of “No Child Left Behind”.  Now that is what I call positive psychology. According to Jenifer, author of Your Childs Strengths (Viking Press 2008), project based learning is the answer to fixing our educational system. The reason is that by allowing our children to work together in teams, we are allowing each of them, even the classroom clown, the opportunity to leverage their strengths, or what I often call, your natural essence.

Here are some of the issues addressed in this 4 part  (40 min) show:

• What is the Strengths Movement?
• How does using your strengths make you happy?
• What is the opposite of a strength?
• What does Jenifer teach learning disable children?
• What are the major categories of strengths?
• Why are standardized tests bad?
• What is project based learning good?