Multi-Tasking: The Importance Of Empathy In The Classroom

Empathy is something that everyone feels or is in the need to say and show feelings towards someone, in homers odyssey some characters show empathy and sympathy in book 9.

She got in a lot of trouble, so it was up to Jem to teach her right from wrong. Empathy is the experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes towards another person, place, or

If you looked in the dictionary it would tell you empathy is being able to relate or understand the feelings of another person. Which is true but it’s also being able to stand in the other person’s shoes and seeing it from their viewpoint. Many people confuse empathy and sympathy. Sympathy is the feelings towards a person but unlike empathy you are not sharing the feelings. When you show empathy you would not be

Empathy can be defined as making a connection to someone during a situation. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, empathy is a main part in some of the characters’ lives. Without empathy, the novel would lack many components that make the main characters, Jem and Scout, who they are.

Empathy derives from the German word Einfühlung, meaning to feel the suffering and troubles of another from within (Clarke, 2014). The empathic concern that enlivens us to action and to alleviate the perils, poverty or punishments borne by another. Humans devoid of empathy are bereft of compassion and immune to the needs and welfare of another.

Empathy: Empathy is important to strengthen social bonds. To support the development of empathy in young children, adults can create a culture of caring in the early childhood environment by helping children understand the feelings of others is an integral aspect of the curriculum of living together.

10. Empathy means trying to see things from another persons point of view and not judging them from your own set of morals.

• Empathy: Empathy is someone who is able to feel what others feel and see things in other people’s point of view.

Tone or volume of voice may portray a negative environment. By shouting across a room or talking down to the child, may scare the child. Always kneel down, or sit along the side the child to talk on a one to one basis. Never let an argument at home follow you into the classroom, and always be mindful that tiredness and hunger, or pain (toothache etc) can make all of us more short tempered. It is important to ensure that you are prepared as possible for work to try to keep this to a minimum, and always remember that it is not the fault of the children in the setting.

The video “A class divided” shows a teacher teaching 3rd graders about empathy. Empathy according to the book is described as the ability to re-create another person’s perspective. Sympathy is your view of another person’s situation. The saying, “Walking in someone else’s shoes” is commonly used to describe empathy. It’s not how you feel about the person’s situation; it’s how you would feel if you were put in their situation.

Empathy and caring is an essential part of human health. We love because we can empathize (Szalavitz & Perry, 2010). Empathy underlies everything that makes society work; such as altruism, collaboration, love and charity. Failures to empathize are a key part of social problems, such as crime, violence, war, racism, child abuse and inequity. Although we are genetically predisposed to care for others, the development of empathy requires a lifelong process of relational interaction (Szalavitz & Perry, 2010). More importantly, the first relationship humans experience, the

Empathy is being able to understand and share another person’s feelings or emotions. It allows a team to develop trust and understand others. Leaders who express empathy towards their team shows that they truly care about the people within their team.

Younger generations aren’t feeling as empathetic as older generations and this will lead to a dangerous society. Empathy is the ability to understand and share feelings. Teaching empathy at a young age will allow one another to accept and communicate with each other. It is also a necessity skill in life that helps each other to recognize one’s emotions. According to the article, This is How Literary Fiction Teaches us to Be Human by Tom Blunt, he emphasizes empathy can be taught through literary fiction and it is vital that young children feel empathy toward each other.

The first concept i will be discussing is empthy, which is discussed in Chapter six (Shebib, 2003). Empathy is the ability to correctly interpret another person's feelings to show them you understand. So, empathy is not something we have, but something we do. Empathy is a skill and an attitude and not a feeling (sympathy is a feeling). It is about being able and willing to understand another person from their own point of view, without your own thoughts, feelings, opinions and judgements getting in the way of this understanding. This

Social Justice is defined as “the equal distribution of opportunities, rights, and responsibility despite differences in physical traits and/or beliefs and behavior. It is an international and multifaceted issue that fights for better treatment and equality of people.” (“Pachamama Alliance,” 2017). According to this definition, my understanding of social justice is that it is a way to advocate for other individuals in order to assist their needs in society. For example, I would want to advocate for Hispanic mothers and children who have been through abuse. My empathy towards this group started because of my personal history with an abusive father who suffered from alcoholism. “Empathy involves thinking about a person and the challenges he or she is facing and coming to understand what it is like for that person to have that experience.” (Cameron & Keenan, 2013, p. 72).