Sensitivity Training in the Classroom.

Sensitivity training in the classroom can help children cope with and adapt to their environment--family, peer group, friends, school, and teachers--and get them to talk honestly and openly about emotional, social, and intellectual feelings and concepts. Some techniques of encouraging students to explore, to become involved with and aware of themselves and their world may include (1) photographing a familiar person or object and writing about it; (2) experiencing various senses and then describing a pipe cleaner, a rock, a dictionary, a grape; and (3) categorizing the ways in which emotions, body postures, and facial expressions affect communication. (MF)