Teaching with Empathy

Creating Welcoming Educational Spaces

• Goal: Make spaces and institutions where students want to come to class and feel like they matter.
• Empathy in Education:
  • Seeing students for who they are.
  • Listening to their backgrounds and journeys.
  • Journeying with them through their education.

Holistic Education

• Concept: The entire student matters.
• Teacher's Role:
  • Serve students to help them reach their goals.
  • Understand the emotional pressures students face (college admission, success, graduate school).

Teaching Strategies with Empathy

• Strategy Development: Sit down with students to develop success strategies.
• Understanding Student Needs:
  • Care about their learning.
  • Acknowledge teachers were once students too.
  • Recognize the diversity and positive aspects of differences among students.

Utilizing Technology (Top Hat)

• Benefits:
  • Serves diverse student needs.
  • Engaging for bored students, provides activities, platform for shy students.
  • Creates a background discussion board for questions.
  • Professors can address student questions, boosting their confidence.

Online Discussions

• Requirements: Students post questions or responses weekly.
• Encouragement: Posting articles, videos, memes, tweets related to the course.
• Objective: Make everyone part of the conversation, contributing something important.

Traditional Model vs Empathy-Driven Teaching

• Traditional: Teacher stands behind podium, limited understanding of student engagement.
• Empathy-Driven Teaching:
  • Creates connections with students.
  • Links material to students' career goals and experiences.
  • Leads to better outcomes for students and teachers.