"Teach With Your Strengths" to Lead With Your Strengths
Even though this is being published at the end of November and we haven't started the season of Advent just yet, you're probably starting to make your gift list...or at least know that you have to start thinking about it.
Here's a suggestion for your gift list, as this is something you'll want to get (or make a gift to yourself), because it will help you to determine what gifts God has bestowed upon you. It's a book by Rosanne Liesveld and Jo Ann Miller with Jennifer Robison titled, "Teach With Your Strengths." I thank Sr. Gertrude Foley, SC, for introducing this book to our office staff several years ago. It actually helped me to realize that what I thought was one of my strengths was not.
I thought I was an organized person...but after reading this book, and using the Strength Finder tool that's included, I found that my 5 top strengths are Connectedness, Input, Ideation, Learning and Responsibility. Discovering this truth helped me to realize that what I do for a living fits exactly with those strengths...which is a very powerful realization.
Although the book is titled "Teach With Your Strengths," the insight can be applied to other walks of life as well as to educators. However, it's especially liberating for teachers. Teachers who read the book and complete the Strengths Finder exercise will be able to create powerful classroom experiences based on their talents, rather than on their preferred learning style or the teaching style of the instructor that influenced them the most.
For those seeking direction, it can help them determine what they can do to put the talents which God gave them to work to build His kingdom. And isn't that a great Christmas gift!
Click here if you'd like to order a copy for you, the teachers in your school, or someone who's struggling with what God is calling them to do.
© Michael V. Ziemski, SchoolAdvancement, 2007 (Original publication date: 20071126)
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