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Teaching Empathy: A Blueprint for Caring, Compassion, and Community
Teaching Empathy A Blueprint for Caring Compassion and Community Author:David A. Levine Teaching Empathy gives educators the tools to teach the pro-social skill of empathy to help create a culture of caring in their schools.Teaching Empathy has four sections. Section 1, Teaching Empathetically: When Teachers Make Connectionshelps educators learn to connect with their students; model pro-social skills; and ... more »build trusting relationships through storytelling, symbolic teaching, and other strategies.Section 2, Learning Empathy: Facilitating Social Discoveryfocuses on how to teach students empathy and the behaviors that accompany it, such as listening, compassion, honor, and generosity. Strategies include social skills learning, cross-training and rituals, and the fishbowl.Section 3, Living Empathy: The School of Belongingasks educators to concentrate on building a school culture of empathy through the 10 intentions of the School of Belonging.Section 4, Courageous Conversationsa mini-curriculum that combines lessons on dilemmas, the power of choice, and other empathic skills with 8 thought-provoking songs (on CD) by the author.« less