4 Proven Strategies for Teaching Empathy | Edutopia - 0 views
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Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
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In psychology, there are currently two common approaches to empathy: shared emotional response and perspective taking.
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Shared emotional response, or affective empathy, occurs when an individual shares another person’s emotions.
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Perspective taking, also known as cognitive empathy, occurs when a person is able to imagine herself in the situation of another.
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Ask students to break into small groups and discuss how important it is to understand that many people disagree with us simply because they have a different point of view. Debrief the student comments.
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In the classroom, literature can be used to help students see a situation from different perspectives.
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We designed the HEAR strategy to help students recognize and block out that noise as they devote their attention to listening to one another. The HEAR strategy consists of these steps: Halt: Stop whatever else you are doing, end your internal dialogue on other thoughts, and free your mind to give the speaker your attention. Engage: Focus on the speaker
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Anticipate: By looking forward to what the speaker has to say, you are acknowledging that you will likely learn something new and interesting,
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Replay: Think about what the speaker is saying. Analyze and paraphrase it in your mind or in discussion with the speaker and other classmates.
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Be aware of your feelings and thoughts about your ability to understand and share in the feelings of others. With metacognitive awareness, we can all become more effective at taking another’s perspective throughout our lives.