For my research project I will be looking into the topic of teachers’ empathy toward students. The question that I specifically will be answering is “How empathetic should teachers be toward students with learning disabilities?”. I choose this topic because I am a student with a learning disability. Learning disabilities come in all shapes and sizes so to speak, from ADHD to dyslexia. And in some cases, like mine, the disability is obviously there, but can not be identified. These students go about their days just like everyone else, but having to deal with there own personal handicap. Some teachers are very accommodating while others refuse to believe the disability even exist. Which goes back to my question of how empathetic should teachers be? Too much and they hinder their teaching and the students learning while too little could cause a student to give up altogether. I hope to answer this with my research project. I feel the relevance my subject has toward this class is that the way my question is, and what the answer should be, the empathy has everything to do with a writing class about Empathy and ethics, writing.
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