This document discusses empathy in education through three main topics: 1. It introduces empathy in education and two guest speakers - Maria Ines Brumana and Andrew Weiler - who will discuss using movies in the classroom and deeper issues in learning. 2. It discusses the importance of emotional intelligence for teachers, including self-awareness, self-management, and social awareness. 3. It shares a story about the author's son Daniel choosing to room with an autistic classmate on a school trip, demonstrating empathy and inclusion at a young age.

1. Empathic Education
By Sylvia Guinan

2. A thinker’s Guide To Empathy
Humanising
education
Emotional
& social
Intelligence
Multiple
Intelligences
Mario Rinvulcri
Daniel Goleman
Howard Gardner

3. Teacher appreciation week
• My way of celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week is to
appreciate my fellow teachers.
After my own quick introduction to empathy in
education, we will introduce two special guests.
Maria Ines Brumana, Teacher, writer, expert on brain-based
education and co-author of ‘ELT Goes To The Movies
and
Andrew Weiler
Author of the soon-to-be published ‘Language Learning
Unlocked”

4. Emotional Intelligence
Know
yourself
Be a role
model
Build
Rapport
• Self-awareness for teachers
• Recognise your own emotions and feelings
• Self-management
• Control impulsive feelings and behaviours
• Social awareness
• Behaviour management

5. Empathy through self-appreciation
• Is self-praise really No
praise?
•
This is one English expression
that comes to mind when I
think of the fallacies that
prevent us from enjoying our
own competencies whether
we are students or teachers.
• Here is something to help
keep professional
development alive and selfesteem intact at the same
time.
What makes an outstanding
Teacher?

6. What we can learn from children
Here is a true story that illustrates
empathy at it’s finest.
• My son Daniel was
scheduled to go on the
end-of –year trip to
Washington,D.C. He and
his friends were really
looking forward to it. Two
nights before the trip the
hotel roommate
assignments were
announced. I listened to
hear which of his friends
Daniel would be rooming
with.

7. Dangers of over-caring blindly for our own
kids
• When I got the information
my heart sank. Daniels’
assigned room-mates were
an autistic boy and his
aide, a man in his early
thirties.
• My first thought was ‘Daniel
is going to get left out of all
the cool things he and his
buddies were planning.
How am I going to break
this news to him?’
• I consider myself to be a
loving and compassionate
person but this was a tough
one for me. I was so afraid
that Daniel would be
disappointed.
When I got home I said
“ Daniel, they put you in a
room with Ricky and his
aide. If you are upset I’ll go
to the school tomorrow and
try to get it changed”

8. Walk a few steps in someone else’s shoes
• He looked at me
quizzically for a
moment, not sure if I
was kidding him, and
then said simply…
“They didn’t put me
with Ricky; I asked to be
with Ricky.
• “ I knew that if I wasn’t
with him, he’s get left
out, and ,you know, it’s
his eighth-grade class
trip too.

10. How does empathy help
learning?
Simply having fun in class increases
levels of rapport, collaboration and
engagement.
Maria Ines Brumana will speak to us
about brain-based fun with movies in
the classroom.
Andrew Weiler will speak to us about
the deeper issues involved in true
learning.