Karen is being praised for teaching her students a powerful emotional lesson that they will not soon forget. She has been teaching for decades, but her most recent class was apparently the most 1 class of her educational career.
For her sixth day of classes at Collinsville Middle School, she decided to try a new2 in empathy (共鸣) with her students called "The Baggage Activity".
Upon establishing that her classroom was a(an) 3 space for expression and respect, she asked what emotional baggage 4 to her students. She then asked them to write about some of their own — and 5 they were not required to put their names on the paper, they could describe their issues as 6 as they wanted.
The kids then read what their classmates wrote 7 , things like suicide, drugs in their family, cancer and on and on.
"The kids who read the papers would cry because what they were reading was 8 The person who shared would cry sometimes too. It was an emotionally draining day, but I firmly believe my kids will judge a little 9 love a little more and forgive a little faster." Loewe wrote in a social media post.
Since writing about her exercise on social media, her 10 has been shared widely. Teachers from all over the world have 11 out to her about performing similar activites in their own classrooms and their students have apparently been "so much more 12 " of each other.
Moreover, Karen kept all the paper confessions (坦白) in a plastic bag so that her students will 13 their exercise in empathy, which also reminds them that they all have 14 .
"We will leave it at the door. As they left, I told them they are not15 they are loved, and we have each other's support." said Loewe.
