5 Activities for Building Empathy in Your Students
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Topics
At-risk children & families, Mental health, Peer support, Social-emotional development
Resource Types
Blog posts
Author
The Inclusion Lab
Year
2017
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Empathy is a complex skill, but just like anything else, it can be taught. This post brings you five simple activities you can use to help build empathy in your students. Adapted from two effective programs on social skills development (see the end of this post for details), these activities will help kids correctly identify emotions, sharpen their active listening skills, sidestep common “empathy busters,” and more.
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