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The students have gotten the chance to take a questionnaire online that evaluates the student’s characteristics and likes, that determines their strengths. Above Mr. Wale assists a second grader with the StrengthsExplorer test.
There are eleven themes that the StrengthsExplorer test categorizes as strengths for youth. They are Achieving, Caring, Competing, Confidence, Dependability, Discoverer, Future Thinker, Organizer, Presence, Relating.
Once each of the students have taken the StrengthsExplorer test, they are given their top three strengths. We then put these strengths on their nametags, so everybody can see them. Already students have been able to connect with other students and staff that have similar strengths as them. Eventually, as the students learn, they will be able to relate and recognize strengths in others that they might not even obtain.
Something that I have found and have relayed onto the students is most of us do not need a test to tell us what we are like. It is empowering and encouraging to hear that you were created that way and it can be used make an impact and glorify God. You also may not have other strengths. That does not mean you have to work to make those thing strengths. Use the strengths you have to do your best. That is why it is helpful to know what they are.
For example, one student had Organizer as a strength. I asked her if she liked to clean and organize things. She said she did. I asked her how she thought she could use it to help others. Immediately she thought of ways to help her mom at home or teacher at school. Other students would not see cleaning or organizing as a strength, because they do not obtain it, but this student does and enjoys it. The goal is not only to better the students, but to strengthen them so they are equipped to make an impact for others.
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