Fostering Resilience and a Growth Mindset in Students: A Strengths-Based Approach

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Hotel: N/A

Room: Plaza A

Floor: Lobby Level

This concurrent session will focus on using a strengths-based approach to promote incremental growth in our students, no matter their level of abilities at the inception of law school. This topic provides an opportunity to generate concrete strategies to move away from a deficit oriented approach to one based on strengths. Session participants will take away an understanding of how to cultivate an awareness of their strengths and concrete strategies for helping students cultivate the finest versions of themselves in a variety of competencies. Using a reflective and interactive exercise as a tool to identify strengths, we will brainstorm strategies for improving our own teaching and methods of providing feedback and develop strategies to help our students recognize their strengths to leverage growth in a variety of competencies, such as legal analysis and writing, oral advocacy, client interactions, leadership skills, and professionalism.