Raeleen and Htawara Empathy

WALT: Comprehend concepts related
to mental health and emotional promotion.

What is empathy?

Why is it important to show empathy toward others?

Because empathy is a way of kindness to other people who is struggling.

What does it mean to “put yourself in someone else’s shoes”?

It means that you can do things better if you put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

What does that have to do with empathy?

Trying your best and never giving up.

What can you do to show empathy toward another person?

Caring about them and cheering them up

Make a popplet or Google drawing a displaying ways that you can reach out to others.

Think of a time when you hurt someone’s feelings. Describe what happened.

Me and my other friend was telling jokes, then I took it to far and started mocking my Best Friend and I hurt her feeling and she never wanted to be my friend again.

How did you know you hurt the person’s feelings?

They rejected me and not talking to me.

How did you feel about the situation?

I felt like a really horrible friend.

What did you do to make the situation better?

By apologizing and trying to make thing better between us.

Discuss how you think your school would change if all of the students showed empathy toward each other.Do you think it would be a big change or a small change? Why do you think so?

It will be a big change because we will have no more detentions and the teachers won’t be yelling at us.