PA-012 - Lifting Students: Professional Growth and Development Through Strength-based Teaching/Mentoring

Students greatest path to success is when they identify their talents and develop them into strengths. This workshop will provide educators with effective teaching strategies to positively mentor students in a clinical setting utilizing strengths-based teaching. Transforming the way students experience their education is key to creating a strengths-based culture that fosters growth from student to a licensed professional. You will learn how faculty awareness of student’s strengths will provides guidance for clinical teaching centered on what is strong versus what is wrong. Additional benefits of strength-based education are an increased respect between classmates and instructors, resulting in collegial connectedness.