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  • Empathetic

    • What is empathetic? 

      The HPL student profile focuses on creating enterprising learners who exhibit leadership attributes in addition to being able to perform highly in school assessments and exams. This VAA consists of the following elements: 

      Collaborative

      The ability to seek out opportunities to receive responses to your work; present your own views and ideas clearly and concisely; listen to the views of others; be willing and able to work in teams; take a variety of roles and be able to evaluate your own ideas and contributions.

      Concerned for society

      The ability to know the contribution you can make to society for the benefit of those less fortunate; demonstrate citizenship and a sense of community ethos and recognise differences as well as similarities between people and peoples; be aware of your own and others’ cultural heritage and sensitive to the ethical and moral issues raised by their studies.

      Confident

      The ability to develop a belief in your knowledge, understanding and action; recognise when you need to change your beliefs based upon additional information or the arguments of others; deal with new challenges and situations, including when this places them under stress.


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      Empathetic Fact Sheet

      This resource provides the key information about this VAA group and advice and tips to use in the classroom

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      Empathetic Fact sheet (PDF)

      This is a downloadable version of the Empathetic fact sheet. 

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      Links to core reading
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      Links to further reading


    • HPL School Example

      This example assembly for primary students looks at how younger learners can be introduced to the Empathy VAA. A huge thank you to Florenza Spinola from GEMs Founder School, Al Barsha for sharing this. 

         

    • Further Reading
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      Empathy is the mother of invention: Emotion and cognition for creativity in the classroom (copy)

      Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathise with others measurably improves their creativity, and could potentially lead to several other beneficial learning outcomes, new research suggests.

      The findings are from a year-long University of Cambridge study with Design and Technology (D&T) year 9 pupils (ages 13 to 14) at two inner London schools. Pupils at one school spent the year following curriculum-prescribed lessons, while the other group's D&T lessons used a set of engineering design thinking tools which aim to foster students' ability to think creatively and to engender empathy, while solving real-world problems.


    • Empathy Examples

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