Teach with Your Strengths: How Great Teachers Inspire Their Students by Rosanne Liesveld, Jo Ann Miller, Jennifer Robison

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Synopsis

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.

Biography

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

Jo Ann Miller is a Senior Seminar Leader and Engagement Manager for The Gallup Organization's Education Division. A member of the School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee, for almost 50 years, Jo Ann began her more than four decades in educational ministry as a high school teacher and teacher educator. For the past 30 years, with Selection Research, Inc. and Gallup, she has consulted with educators and church leaders throughout the United States and Canada. Through her seminar leadership, Jo Ann has taught thousands of school leaders the strengths-based approach to teacher and principal selection and development. She received her master's degree in history from Loyola University in Chicago, and she lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

Jennifer Robison is a contributing writer to Gallup Press. She frequently writes profiles of global companies and interviews leading experts in business and psychology for the Gallup Management Journal. Jennifer lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.