Asset-Based Pedagogy: Teaching That Starts With Student Strengths
What Is Asset-Based Pedagogy? Asset-Based Pedagogy is an approach to teaching that starts with what students bring to the classroom rather than what they supposedly lack. Instead of viewing students through a deficit lens—focusing on gaps, weaknesses, or “missing skills”—this framework emphasizes students’ strengths, lived experiences, cultural knowledge, languages, interests, and ways of thinking. In…
