Strategies for Empathy, Grit and Resilience Part 2 of 2
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This document discusses strategies for developing empathy, resilience, and grit in students. It provides principles for character education from Theodore Roosevelt and Rafe Esquith. Specific strategies are presented for cultivating empathy, including teaching emotional literacy, developing a moral identity, perspective taking, moral imagination, self-regulation, kindness, collaboration, and moral courage. Concrete strategies are outlined for raising caring children, such as looking face-to-face, using emotion words, praising caring actions, capturing caring moments, using real events and books, being a caring role model, and reflecting on kindness. Overall, the document promotes the development of empathy and character in students.
Strategies for Empathy, Grit and Resilience Part 2 of 2
- 2. Tried-and-Tested Strategies That Form Students’ Character: Empathy, Resilience and Grit
- 4. Principle To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt
- 5. By Rafe Esquith Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire
- 8. By Hal Urban Lessons from the Classroom 20 Things Good Teachers Do
- 11. Very important to teach the students: delayed gratification!
- 15. Jigsaw Puzzles
- 16. Gardening
- 20. Play/Theater
- 23. 1. Rewards System 2. Student of the Year Recognition 3. Stop-Watch System 4. Search for the Most Outstanding Class Adviser 5. Search for the Most Innovative Teacher 6. Cooperative Learning Activities 7. Performance Tasks 8. Starting a Class with a Workload 9. Class Website 10. Class Excellence Award
- 25. Good Deeds Bowl
- 26. Merit/Rewards
- 28. Trophy Technique
- 29. Compliments Game
- 30. The Road that leads to two paths…
- 33. The most important thing he did as a teacher.
- 34. Never let the demands of your job cause you to forget that each one of your students is a feeling- thinking human being. For education to be effective, it must be personal. - George Isaac Brown
- 35. The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important. - John Dewey
- 36. - Eye contact - Shaking hands - Smiling
- 37. Teachers Impact
- 38. Second Most Important Thing He Did as a Teacher: Teach Manners and the Golden Rule
- 39. If manners were an animal, it would be an endangered species. - Henry Rogers
- 40. Choosing an Atmosphere Rude Courteous Inconsiderate Considerate Disrespectful Respectful Offensive Polite
- 41. The Power of Words
- 42. 4 Pillars of Civilization (Being Civil) Thank You Sorry Please I give my word
- 43. “Practice what you preach… But don’t forget to preach what you practice!” - Tom Lickona
- 44. Everything that happens inside the Classroom IS Character Building.
- 47. Empathetic Children Can Recognize Feelings 1st Habit: Teaching emotional literacy to help students recognize and understand the feelings and needs of others
- 48. Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle. Ian Maclaren
- 50. Empathetic Children Have a “Moral Identity” 2nd Habit: Developing an ethical code so students will adopt caring values that guide their integrity and activity empathy to help others
- 52. Empathetic Children Understand the Needs of Others 3rd Habit: Instilling perspective taking so students can step into others’ shoes to understand another’s feelings, thoughts and views
- 53. Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning. Frederick W. Faber
- 55. Empathetic Children Have A “Moral Imagination” 4th Habit: Instilling a moral imagination so students can use literature, films and emotionally- charged imaged as a source of inspiration to feel with others
- 57. Empathetic Children Can Keep Their Cool 5th Habit: Mastering self-regulation to help students learn to manage strong emotions and reduce personal distress so they can help others
- 58. A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. Francis of Assis
- 60. Empathetic Children Practice Kindness 6th Habit: Developing and exercising compassion to increase students’ concern about the welfare and feelings of others
- 62. Empathetic Kids Think “Us” Not “Them” 7th Habit: Cultivating collaboration to active empathy and help students work with others to achieve shared goals for the benefit of all
- 63. Kindness gives birth to kindness. Sophocles
- 65. Empathetic Kids Stick Their Necks Out 8th Habit: Promoting moral courage to embolden kids to speak out, step in and help others
- 67. Empathetic Kids Want to Make a Difference 9th Habit: Cultivating altruistic leadership abilities to motivate students to make a difference for others, no matter how small it may be, and become Changemakers
- 68. Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal
- 70. 8 CONCRETE STRATEGIES THAT HELP RAISE CARING CHILDREN UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed In Our All- About-Me World
- 72. A simple way to increase face to face connection is to enforce one habit: “Always look at the color of the talker’s eyes.”
- 73. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino
- 74. 2. Use More Emotion Words
- 77. A study found that praising children’s character traits rather than their behavior helped them internalize caring as part of their identities. The character-praised kids were also more likely to be more generous than those children who were told that they had donated because they were expected to do.
- 78. 4. Use Discipline to Redo Uncaring Behavior
- 80. Make sure to display prominently photos of your kids engaged in kind and thoughtful endeavors so they recognize that “caring matters.”
- 81. 6. Use Real Events, Books, and News
- 82. Help stretch your child’s perspective-taking skills (the cognitive part of empathy) using spontaneous everyday moments.
- 83. In books: “Take the bears’ side. How would you feel if Goldilocks used your beds and chairs without asking?”
- 84. In the news: “The cyclone destroyed most of those children’s homes. What do you think those kids are feeling and thinking? What do you think we can do to help?”
- 85. In your family: “How does Dad feel hearing that his mom is so sick?” Don’t overlook asking: “I wonder if there’s a way we can help?”
- 86. 7. Be a Caring Role Model
- 87. One of the greatest questions to ask yourself each day is: “If I were the only example my child had to learn kindness and empathy, what did she learn today?”
- 89. So instead of always asking, “What did you learn today?” or “What grade did you get?” include:
- 90. “What’s something you did that was kind?” “What kind thing did you see someone do?”
- 91. “… children are hard-wired to care, but their capacity for empathy must be nurtured …”
- 92. Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. Henry James
- 94. Tried-and-Tested Strategies That Form Students’ Character: Empathy, Resilience and Grit