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Lesson 21EmpathyPut yourself in other’sshoesHabit 9:Co-operate and communicateEmpathy is an important part of EQ.Getting on with others is interpersonal intelligence.How good are you at working with others?Having empathy will create good relationships.How well do you get on with: 10/10 is highYour friends (easy) /10Your sisters and brothers (harder) /10Your mum and dad/carers (can be hard) /10Your teachers (very hard) /10Your neighbours (harder still) /10People you don’t know yet (hardest) /10If you are a good communicator you will get onwell with others – including people you don’tknow. In life there will be many occasions whenyou need to communicate with people you don’tknow. Most people who are successful knowhow to put themselves in other people’s shoes.They are good listeners and can makethemselves understood.Make a pair of empathy glasses from card and put them on when you needto make a conscious decision to see another person’s viewpoint.In pairs, choose one of these statements and give your opinion about it inone minute:● Students should be paid to go to school.● Parents should be allowed to smack their children.● Bullies should be forgiven.● There should be no homework for children.● Drugs should be legalised.Now argue the opposite view to each otherwith your empathy glasses on. Score yourempathy factor for each other out of ten.Role-plays are a good way of improvingcommunication and empathy.Neighbourhood nightmare. Play roles of an oldpensioner, young vandals, the village policeman,the school caretaker and so on. Each gives astatement about trouble that has been going onin the village. Swap roles.The <strong>Learner’s</strong> <strong>Toolkit</strong> © Jackie Beere and Crown House Publishing Ltd 79
LESSON 34Improve literacy throughvisualisationAimMuch research has been done in the USA(notably by Lindamood–Bell, www.lblp.com)on the correlation between a failure to createvisual images and restricted comprehensionskills. This lesson helps students use imagingto understand text.For the Shakespeare piece students can talkthrough or draw images that come to mindwith each line to help them learn what itmeans and possibly learn it off by heart.Experiment with other texts.(Please pass on this technique to your LiteracyCo-ordinator because it could really helpstudents improve their reading skills.)First thoughtsTeachers should get students to recallmemories of holidays and describe them insome detail to start to locate the visualmemory.‘Man’s mind cannot understand thoughtswithout images of them’.Thomas AquinasPlanteacher’s notesFirst read out the passage and then studentscan produce the images in the boxes for eachsection. It really doesn’t matter whether theyuse pictures, colours or words in each box aslong as they are focusing on the images. It ismuch better if they talk about what they areseeing and describe it in detail.124 Section 2 • Lessons in Learning to Learn
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