Empathy with the Rule of Three

My Rule of Three focuses on how teachers should be able to get their students excited to go to class every day. This means that the teacher and students need to be able to communicate to make sure everything is going well. In a way, the teacher needs to empathize with their students. In a scientific article “The Neural Correlates of Empathy”, it states that “The ability to experience empathy for the plight of our fellow human beings is one of most fundamental skills in the repertoire of human social behavior” (1). Basically, empathy is important to human’s lives in the social behavior world. If teachers don’t know how to be empathetic, how are they going to get the students excited for class? The teachers should be able to put themselves in the student’s shoes and feel what it’s like to learn the subject they are teaching and also know how fun or boring the activities they do in class are. In the same article, it states that “Incorporating the cognitive and emotional talents of humans, empathy requires both the ability to comprehend others thoughts and feelings as well as resonate affectively with their emotions” (1). As it is said inside the quotes “empathy requires both the ability to comprehend others thoughts and feelings as well as … their emotions”, teachers need to feel this way as well. They should be able to know how the students are feeling in the class by their attitude, body language, behavior, and etc.  For example, if the teacher did not have empathy and the students were not getting excited for the class, something like the Jeff Bliss video could happen. Students will give up on the teacher and their grades will only drop. They will find the subject useless and not meaningful in their life in the future. Empathy is something that everybody needs in their life no matter what they do in the future.

Works Cited

Rameson, Lian T., Sylvia A. Morelli, and Matthew D. Lieberman. "The Neural Correlates Of Empathy: Experience, Automaticity, And Prosocial Behavior." Journal Of Cognitive Neuroscience 23.11 (2011): 1-11. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Sept. 2013.