After spending today in an area wide professional development seminar, which happened to focus on classroom management and teaching positive behaviors (such as kindness), I happen to come across an article Can Kindness be Taught? discussing a similar idea. And my thought was - well I sure hope so because I spent a lot of time today learning how to teach it! But upon further reflection, I realized what we were calling kindness, was really just appropriate behaviors. To teach someone how to care for others on this planet seems much more monumental a task. But I agree with the article - kindness may be taught, but it must also be fostered in a safe environment, which we may be able to provide at school, but that only takes care of the hours from 8-3.
Source: Can Kindness be Taught?
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