How do you transform a classroom of individuals into a community of compassionate peers? The process of teaching empathy involves recognizing and naming the skill, practicing it, modeling it through action, and encouraging it. This resource focuses on teaching empathy and building a culture of caring in the classroom. A CD of the author’s original music enhances the learning experience.
Helping children develop greater empathy-related awareness and skill can help prevent negative social behaviors such as bullying, meanness, and alienation.
Explore how three types of empathy—affective, cognitive, and behavioral—intertwine with curriculum, learning environment, equity practices, instruction and assessment, and grading and reporting.
This book draws on a wide range of contributors across many disciplines, and takes an evidence-based and longitudinal approach to clinical empathy education.
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty.
Toni Morrison, one of America's greatest literary treasures, helps us understand how literary texts stand as primary source documents that are just as powerful as factual accounts in illuminating current events and social tensions.
Camper is happy as a clam and Clam is a happy camper. When you live in The Happy Book, the world is full of daisies and sunshine and friendship cakes . . . until your best friend eats the whole cake and doesn't save you one bite.
This charming story uses verse, beautiful illustrations and a little person called Quinn to model the meaning of empathy.
In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters because we never stop discovering who we are.
Teaching Empathy: A Blueprint for Caring, Compassion, and Community
"This easy-to-use guide will help the busiest parents and educators teach children, tweens, and teens the ability to "walk in someone else's shoes" - skills that lasts a lifetime and helps kids become caring adults with the people skills ...