Fostering Empathy and Compassionate Action in the Classroom

Explore the impact of fostering empathy and compassionate action in the classroom, benefiting students through improved classroom management, positive relationships, and higher reading comprehension scores. Understand the importance of empathy and how it promotes moral development and ethical behavior. Learn about the teachability of empathy and its link to compassionate action in raising caring and moral individuals.

• Empathy
• Compassionate Action
• Classroom Management
• Moral Development
• Ethical Behavior

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1. Fostering Empathy and Compassionate action in the classroom.

2. Agree or disagree?

3. Agreed Improved classroom management and positive relationships between the teacher and the pupils, and among pupils. Gootman (2001) Schools where there are programmes to foster a caring community and increased empathy have been found to have higher scores than comparison schools on measures of higher-order reading comprehension. Kohn (1991)

4. Empathy?

5. Batson writes that empathic concern is crucial: respond with sensitive care to the suffering of another .

6. Krznaric points out that perspective- taking empathy is to try and walk in another s shoes .

7. Why is empathy important? People who are empathic are more able to appreciate the needs and wants of others. This is a fundamental skill that is integral to the human condition. It is an essential basis for individual moral development. (Goleman, Hoffman)

8. Compassionate action involves basic unselfishness/ kindness towards others and encourages the ethical mind.

9. Is empathy teachable? Oliner (2004) points out that empathy is a powerful energy behind acts of kindness and states that this is teachable.

10. Are empathy and compassionate action linked? Yes. In order to raise caring and moral children one must be taught .. 1. Responsibility. 2. The difference between right and wrong 3. To feel empathy for others as well as other moral values.

11. Does learning a foreign language help build empathy? The very act of trying to learn a foreign language helps foster empathy for foreigners and others who may have a language disability. Learning and the feeling the struggle to learn another language puts the student into the shoes of another person .

12. How do we build empathic skills?

13. 1. Teach students to name feelings.

14. 2. By listening to others.

15. 3. By cooperating and collaborating. (Gootman 2001)

16. 4. Examination of misfortune by pupils.

17. 5. Role playing.

18. 6. Story telling.

19. 7. Empathic dialogue.

20. Empathic dialogue Empathic dialogue can take place when a teacher tells a story that takes the pupils back in time to a situation that is familiar to them. ..an illustration about learning the TL for the first time, sharing past challenges with students Questo il treno per Napoli. V Questo il treno per Napoli?

21. Another powerful method outside the classroom .. 8. Visits to hospitals or indeed any activity that helps any disadvantaged persons or groups. (Feshbach & Feshbach 2011)

22. What is the price for ignoring empathy? Less emotionally literate generation. Palmer states that as more children become distractible, impulsive and lacking in empathy, anti social behaviour will increase (2006).

23. Levine writes that the essence of empathy is presence, focus, hearing and reflection .