The primary focus of your job is to guide students toward learning and prepare them for the next grade – and the real world. You might also work on cultivating students’ “soft” skills like perseverance and communication, but there’s something else that matters: kindness.
The Center for Creative Leadership’s white paper, “Empathy in the Workplace: A Tool for Effective Leadership,” shares that empathy is positively related to job performance, while countless other experts cite kindness as an asset of some of the world’s most successful people.
You care about your students’ long-term well-being. So, teach them not just to achieve but to treat others well along the way. Here are a few tips to cultivate kindness in your students:
A culture of kindness in your classroom will nurture students’ development of empathy, self-esteem, and more. This positive environment will strengthen your students as individuals and future leaders.
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