Teaching with Empathy and Student Engagement
📌 Teaching with empathy is viewed as an extension of holistic education, emphasizing that the entire student matters and that teachers serve the students' needs.
😟 Many faculty observe that students experience anxiety and emotional anguish due to pressure related to college admission, success, and graduate school aspirations.
🤝 Empathy in teaching involves actively listening, understanding students' perspectives, and collaboratively developing strategies for success in the course.

Leveraging Diversity and Technology in Education
💡 Educators should tap into the positive aspects of difference and diversity, recognizing that varied backgrounds allow for mutual learning.
💻 Tools like Top Hat are beneficial as they cater to the needs of all students, including those who get bored, need activity, or are too shy to speak up.
🗣️ Utilizing background features like discussion boards ensures that student questions are heard, increasing their confidence to engage verbally in the future.

Fostering Inclusive Classroom Participation
✍️ Requiring weekly online posts (questions, responses, related articles, or memes) creates an opportunity for everyone to belong to the conversation.
💬 When a professor acknowledges a student's contribution (e.g., choosing their question), it makes the student more likely to engage next time.
🚀 Connecting course material to students' career goals and overall experiences makes the content more meaningful than traditional podium teaching.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Empathy in teaching means seeing students for who they are and journeying with them through their learning process.
➡️ Utilize digital platforms to create equitable opportunities for contribution, especially for quieter or more hesitant students.
➡️ Connecting with students directly correlates with better academic outcomes and a greater sense of success for both the educator and the learners.

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