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Empathy and Teaching

  In this post I will explore the connection between one of Carl Roger’s core conditions, that being empathy, and how it connects to teaching. Education is a critical portion in any person’s upbringing and the ability of teachers to help in fostering a positive experience for many students can relate to whether they are empathetic or not.               It is often easier for a teacher to take a negative view on a student who is troublesome and takes away time from others and address the situation in a manner that will make the student who may be lashing out feel unheard or unseen by the teacher. In turn a student is likely to have future positive reciprocation with that teacher and unlikely to change the troublesome behavior. An example of this would be a teacher saying something along the lines of “If these outbursts keep occurring, I’m going to have to send you to detention”. This kind of response will leave stude...
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Bolton Inventory and DISC Assessment

                      There are so many differing options within the world of personality and behavioral assessments which look to measure knowledge, skills, dispositions, and other factors that help make up a person’s character or identity. In this post I will be looking at how Bolton’s Inventory differs and relates to the DISC assessment. Bolton’s Inventory measures by behavioral styles, these being, expressive, amiable, driver, and analytical. While the DISC assessment defines these for areas as dominance, influence, conscientiousness, and steadiness. Since both assessments are gauged on a quadrant system, I will mainly assess how each assessment defines the respective quadrants and how this can be applied to group work.               When dissecting a DISC assessment I found that it focuses more on the individual and the traits which the person may hav...
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