Product reviews for Teaching Toward Solutions

This is a well detailed with plenty of real life examples of how a solution focused approach can help improve behaviour. This approach wrong foots students who are so used to having their problems analysed, by finding the exceptions to the problem, new interventions are generated. It provides user friendly scripts as -˜aide memoirs' to help the practitioner get started.

It provides throughout the tools to enable school staff to explore a novel approach to “problem solving” through finding the exceptions - that is when the problem is less severe. The model enables learners and parents to become part of the solution rather than seeing themselves as part of the problem. Because of our over reliance on believing that the only way to solve a problem is to focus exclusively on the problem we miss those small signs of improvements that happen constantly. Change is inevitable, but it it can be slow and small, and if we are not careful we miss signs of the solution because we are only looking at the problem. This book offers school practitioners activities to experiment with and ways to prevent the child being seen as the problem, the problem is the problem, not children.

One of the best practical accounts of Solution Focussed Interventions for school staff available.

An excellent book that shows forcefully why -˜fighting fire with water', is always the bets solution.

This book provides the tools to help school staff “catch em being good”, a sound philosophy that needs practical muscle to make it work. Teaching towards Solutions, provides the muscle

Solution Focussed approaches in Education are much talked about, this book has something for school managers, classroom practitioners as well individual students. A book for the staff room reference shelf.