Empathy towards students

The benefits of empathy in education include building positive classroom culture, strengthening community, and
preparing students to be leaders in their own communities.

1. Empathy builds positive classroom culture.

Through empathy, students learn to understand each other, which help them to build friendships based on positive
relationships of trust. Taking the time to demonstrate empathy can also develop student-teacher relationships.

2. Empathy strengthens community.

Given that the definition of empathy involves understanding another's feelings without having experience, empathy
sets students up to deepen relationships with their current classmates and people that they know outside of school.

As children learn empathy skills by communicating cross-culturally with their classmates, those skills will transfer
to their lives in their community. The deeper relationships that result from strong empathy skills have the potential
to strengthen a community and build trust. The effects of community extend far beyond the four walls of your
classroom.

3. Empathy prepares your students to be leaders in their community.

Leaders must understand the people that they lead and be able to show that they care. Leadership articles emphasize
human development as an essential leadership quality.

Our students must be able to empathize with those whom they lead in order to make them feel valued. This
validation will strengthen trust between the leader and followers. As teachers, we must equip our students to be the
future leaders of our communities and beyond.

Commitment and dedication to the profession

Commitment is an essential element of successful teaching. Committed teachers are concerned with the
development of their students and they profoundly struggle how to keep students’ learning. They cultivate students’
curiosity and interest in learning. Showing commitment to student learning can be an important factor in motivating
students. Committed teachers recognize and endeavor to fulfill their responsibilities to their students.
The degree of loyalty of committed teachers have, toward their profession is one of their distinguished characters.
Teachers, who are engaged in their profession and committed to students and their learning, play a crucial role in
development of students.

Committed teachers have a tendency to perform the roles effectively that their job requires and to establish a good
teacher-student relationship in accordance with the professional values. This approach facilitates student learning
and development of terminal behaviors.

Reflective practitioner

Reflective practitioner builds and examines knowledge about learners, the culture and curricula of schooling,
and the contexts in which teaching and learning occur; such a practice assists an educator to simultaneously
renew, invigorate, and maximize the teaching process. Such renewal requires contemplation about:

1. One’s self and the effect on the teaching/learning process;

2. One’s previously acquired knowledge, skills and dispositions;
3. One’s current learners and educational setting; and
4. One’s vision for accountability and development of every learner’s potential.
Passion for teaching
Passionate teachers are distinguished by their commitment to achievement of their students.

Passion matters in that it motivates and inspires the teachers. Passion is a motivational factor that affects teacher
performance. It drives the teachers for a better student accomplishment.
Passionate teachers create an effective learning environment and increase learning potential of students. Passion
leads to creativity; therefore, passionate teachers have the ability to think and produce new notions in an easy way.
Passionate teachers are committed and dedicated to their schools and a good education achievement is an outcome
of this commitment and dedication.

Passionate teachers are those who make great changes in our lives. Their beliefs and vigorous actions make us
realize our inner values and bewitch us. Passion contributes to teacher’s motivation and performance. Passionate
teachers have an affect on student achievement. There is a strong correlation between passionate teaching and
successful student learning. Commitment, a sense of adherence, is a key factor that influences learning process of
students.