Understanding and Empathy
By: Lindsey Zimmer
What is Listening with Understanding and Empathy?
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Here is a very in depth article about not only listening with understanding and empathy but about all the Habits of Mind
Habit in Action
My friend Kate has a sister who lost her best friend when she was a sophomore. Kate was telling me about how sad she was to watch her sister hurt so bad. She would listen to her sisters stories about abbey and cry when her sister cried because it hurt her to see her sister hurt.
What the Professionals Say?
I talked to Mrs. Simmons who is a 4th grade teacher at Walker Creek and was the GT teacher before that. She said that she encourages the kids to listen to one another fully by showing them by giving her undivided attention to them when they talk. In her GT class she taught lessons on empathy and showed them videos and made them roll play.
I also talked to Mr. Devlin at Birdville high school and he said that he doesn't really teach a specific lesson on empathy but he makes his students do group work so they have to listen to each other. He also mentioned that when he goes through the text of the novel they are reading at the time they have to listen to each others thoughts and empathize with characters.